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[00:01.00]A new study shows that a drug that helps women with osteoporosis also helps men.
[00:09.09]This disease makes bones thinner and weaker.
[00:14.11]It increases chances that the bones will break.It also leads to loss of height.
[00:22.34]Ten-million people in the United States have osteoporosis.Two million of them are men.
[00:32.08]Women with osteoporosis have been treated successfully with drugs.
[00:38.12]But there currently is no treatment approved for general use in men.
[00:45.01]The New England Journal of Medicine reported the research.
[00:50.39]The study involved two-hundred-forty-one men with osteoporosis.
[00:57.68]They were aged thirty-one to eighty-seven.One-hundred-forty-six men received the drug Fosamax each day.
[01:09.41]Ninety-five of the men received a pill containing no medicine.
[01:15.73]Everyone in the study took Vitamin D and calcium.
[01:22.45]The men who took Fosamax had a seven-percent increase in the thickness of the bones of their backs.
[01:31.62]They had a three-percent increase in the thickness of their hipbones.
[01:37.18]They had a two-percent increase in bone density in their bodies in general.
[01:44.26]Men who took the false drug had a two-percent increase in thickness of the bones of their backs.
[01:52.67]However,they had no increase in their hipbones.Nor was there general improvement in their whole bodies.
[02:02.99]During the two years of the study,one-percent of the group taking Fosamax broke their back bones.
[02:12.44]But seven percent of those who took the false drug suffered broken bones in their back.
[02:20.02]The lead study researcher was Eric Orwoll.
[02:25.30]He works for the Oregon Health Sciences University in the northwestern city of Portland,Oregon.
[02:34.75]Doctor Orwoll says scientists have thought of osteoporosis as a women's disease.
[02:43.27]Many older women suffer bone loss after their menstrual periods stop.
[02:50.74]He says scientists have not considered that men also suffer from osteoporosis.
[02:59.54]Generally,fewer men than women get the disease because men have larger and stronger bones.
[03:08.71]However,men are more likely to get osteoporosis if they smoke cigarettes or drink a great deal of alcohol.
[03:18.74]They also are more likely to get the disease if they do not exercise,or if they take drugs known as steroids.
[03:30.00]The company that makes Fosamax now is seeking government approval of the drug for men with osteoporosis.
