ロコモティブシンドロームからみた骨粗鬆症

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

　高度に高齢化が進行する日本において，健康寿命の延伸という観点から骨粗鬆症とロコモティブシンドローム（ロコモ）の克服はともに重要な課題である。骨粗鬆症はロコモの重要な構成疾患である一方で，ロコモは転倒リスクに影響するため，その対策は骨折予防に重要である。実際に，ロコモの評価法や対策は，転倒リスクの評価と予防に関わる要素が大きい。骨折低減のためには，骨粗鬆症の治療率の向上とともに，ロコモの普及と対策が重要である。

　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.