Osteoporosis
Bone fracture incidence is increased in women with pollen-allergy and is related to obesity
Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 15th, 2006
According to scientists in Hungary, "Our aim was to investigate whether pollen-allergy can affect bone mass and fractures in postmenopausal women.
"A total of 125 postmenopausal pollen-allergic women (mean age: 61.26 yr) were split into four groups:
(1) treated with neither H1 histamine receptor (H1R) antagonist nor inhaled corticosteroid (n=43);
(2) treated only with H1R antagonist (n=53);
(3) treated with both H1R antagonist and inhaled corticosteroid (n=17);
(4) treated with...
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