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A news study finds that the worse a woman’s skin wrinkles are during the first few years of menopause, the lower her bone density is. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston.

“In postmenopausal women the appearance of the skin may offer a glimpse of the skeletal well-being, a relationship not previously described,” said Lubna Pal, MD, a reproductive endocrinologist and associate professor at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

The study demonstrates only an association between bone density and skin wrinkling, stressed Pal, the study’s principal investigator. However, she called their findings noteworthy.

“This information,” Pal said, “may allow for the possibility of identifying postmenopausal women at fracture risk at a glance, without dependence on costly tests.”

The study is an ancillary study to an ongoing multicenter trial called the

There are so many issues we face as we go through menopause. We all know about the hot flashes, night sweats and memory issues, but another huge problem is the loss of bone density resulting in osteoporoisis. A growing body of research suggests that consuming polyphenols, like those found in green tea, may help g to the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF). Researchers, many of whom were involved with both studies, concluded that drinking green tea may be an effective way for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis to slow bone loss and even improve bone mineral density. Of the 10 million Americans suffering from osteoporosis, four in five are wo">postmenopausal women preserve bone density and slow the onset of osteoporosis.

In a new study spearheaded by scientists at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, mature women who were given daily doses of green

Osteoporosis fractures are four times more common than strokes. Women in their 50s have an equal chance of experiencing complications of osteoporosis as they do  from breast cancer according to orthopedic surgeon and traumatologist Sanjay Rastogi at a recent osteoporosis awareness lecture.

Early menopause (before 45 years of age) is the single greatest risk factor for osteoporosis.  Other reasons include… poor calcium intake and deficiency of Vitamin D, smoking and alcohol consumption .

Explaining the disease, he said: Osteoporosis is a condition in which bone become more porous than average and are prone to fracture. The loss of both calcium and bone matrix leads to decreased bone mineral density (BMD) and increased bone fragility. The disease speeds up in women within 10 years after  menopause. This is primarily because the ovaries stop producing the female sex hormone estrogen,

Diminished bone density, caused by low levels of estrogen common among menopausal women, raises the risk of osteoporosis, bone fractures and subsequent complications. Traditional therapies have sought to maintain the level of estrogen in the body. New research suggests, however, that another hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), also may be involved in decreasing bone density during menopause, and may guide researchers to an alternative avenue for treatment of this debilitating condition.

In the five years leading up to menopause, FSH levels gradually increase as bone density begins to decrease over the same period of time. Data from animal studies has pointed to a link between FSH and bone density.

During menopausal bone loss, the destructive activity of osteoclasts, which break down bone, outweighs rebuilding activity of osteoblasts, which regenerate bone, resulting in an overall weakening of the