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Osteoporosis

Would you consider Osteoporosis a connective tissue disorder ?
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I see you answers both my post in Neurology and ortho . what kind of dr are you??
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Hello Dear,
Connective tissue diseases are chronic inflammatory autoimmune disorders which can affect all connective tissues, i.e. joints, skin, muscles and blood vessels, and therefore have multiple effects on many different organs throughout the body. Although the commonest one is rheumatoid arthritis.
Osteoporesis is not a connective tissue disorder,it may accompany a connective tissue disor
Refer http://www.arc.org.uk/arthinfo/medpubs/6529/6529.aspder.
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