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Pandemic of osteoporosis is becoming more and more evident with aging of population and increasing longevity. A very persuading numbers about fractures, mainly of femoral neck, are alarming and are becoming a population problem. The basic preventive measure is an effort to reach optimal and as great as possible peak bone mass that is determined genetically and influenced by a number of modifiable external factors. The condition for a successful development, skeletal maintenance and osteopenia or osteoporosis treatment effect is sufficient saturation with calcium and vitamin D in every age. Besides pandemic of osteoporosis aging population worldwide faces subclinical deficit of vitamin D that leads to acceleration of age related increase in secretion of parathormon and is one of principal mechanisms of bone mass loss in higher age decades – involutional osteoporosis. Subclinical vitamin D deficit manifests also by sarcopenia, muscle weakness, instability and functional disorders increasing the risk of falls. This state is reversible after saturation with vitamin D. All clinical studies concerning antiresorbtive therapy are performed always with concomitant saturation with calcium an

Author

MUDr. Jiří Jenšovský

Published

2009