Sentence examples for vulnerable to bone from inspiring English sources

Postmenopausal women with hyperthyroidism are especially vulnerable to bone mass loss [ 35].

35 Frail elderly people, many of whom have other comorbidities such as osteoporosis, may be particularly vulnerable to bone fractures following a fall.

Once diagnosed, patients are vulnerable to bone complications, also referred to as skeletal-related events or SREs (ie, radiation therapy to the bone, pathological or osteoporotic fractures, spinal cord compression, and surgery to the bone) that impact quality of life.

Data from this companion study suggest that women with a BMD score of −1.0 or greater when starting letrozole after tamoxifen are less vulnerable to enhanced bone resorption and may not require prophylactic bisphosphonate therapy.

This in turn makes the bone vulnerable to stress fractures [44, 45, 47].

Yet, even though we are all constructed of flesh and bone, vulnerable to the same injuries and illnesses, and even though we all will die, each of us has our own special relationship with mortality.

Mature bone may be more vulnerable to rises in intraosseous pressure than immature bone, 26 leading to ischemia and ON.

For example, radiation therapy induces ischaemia making bone tissue vulnerable to fractures and infections and induces characteristic changes in the growing skeleton.

Bone is especially vulnerable to deterioration and fracture in elderly people because of a loss of bone mass and strength with age (osteoporosis).

"The rock that it was embedded in would have been extremely hard to break away from the bones, and you couldn't go at it with a sledge-hammer because the bones were vulnerable to breaking".

DNA is well preserved in bone but highly vulnerable to contamination.