On "2015 Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis". Osteoporosis in relation to locomotive syndrome

Abstract

In the super-aged society of Japan, both osteoporosis and locomotive syndrome are important together from a point of view of the extension of the healthy life expectancy. Osteoporosis is an significant constituting disease of locomotive syndrome, and the measures for locomotive syndrome are important to the prevention of osteoporotic fracture, because it influences the risk of falling. Actually, a rating system and the measures for locomotive syndrome have significant relationship with evaluation and decreace of the risk of falling. To reduce the osteoporotic fracture in Japan, the spread of measures for locomotive syndrome are necessary, as well as the increase of a treatment rate of osteoporosis.