Evidence of Osteoporosis Found in Bronze Age Women : Science File / An exploration of issues and trends affecting science, medicine and the environment
<i> From Times staff and wire reports</i>
Even Bronze Age women had osteoporosis despite their presumably active lives, according to researchers from the Vienna University Hospital. The team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that they used X-rays to determine the density of bones from 14 women buried at Unterhautzental, Austria, and found that they were about 11% less dense than bones from five men, indicating that the women were at greater risk for fractures.
