IOF One-Minute Osteoporosis Risk Test

Are you among the one in three women, and the one in five men over the age of 50 who will be affected by osteoporosis in their lifetimes?

Osteoporosis weakens bones and leads to fractures. It causes severe disability. But osteoporosis can be detected early. It can be treated.

If you knew something that could harm you was coming, wouldn't you avoid it?

The test consists of 19 easy questions to help you understand the status of your bone health.

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Amino Acid Intake and BMD

Jennings et al reported analyses of female identical twins with different amino acid intakes.

Twins with higher intakes of alanine and glycine had higher BMD at the spine than their co-twins, with within-pair differences in spine BMD of 0.012 g/cm² and 0.014 g/cm², respectively.

In cross-sectional multivariable analyses of 3,160 females aged 18-79 years, a higher intake of total protein was associated with higher BMD at the spine (quartile Q4 to quartile Q1: 0.017 g/ cm²) and forearm (Q4 to Q1: 0.010 g/cm².

Intake of alanine, arginine, glutamic acid, leucine, lysine, and proline was associated with higher BMD at the spine and forearm, with the strongest association observed for leucine (Q4 to Q1: 0.024 g/cm²).

When intakes were stratified by source, vegetable or animal, prevalence of osteoporosis or osteopenia was 13% to 19% lower comparing extreme quartiles of vegetable intake for five amino acids (not glutamic acid or proline).

Jennings A, MacGregor A, Spector T, Cassidy A. Amino acid intakes are associated with bone mineral density and prevalence of low bone mass in women: Evidence from discordant monozygotic twins. J Bone Miner Res 2015; doi:10.1002/jbmr.2703.