Title

Awareness, attitudes and practices for osteoporosis prevention among postmenopausal women: A mixed-method survey and DEXA correlation

Authors

Mukul Singh¹ & Sanjay M. Walulkar^2,*

Affiliation

¹Department of General Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India; ²Department of Anatomy, NKP Salve Institute Medical Sciences and Research center and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital Nagpur, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Mukul Singh - E-mail: singhmukul3911@gmail.com

Sanjay M. Walulkar - E-mail: sanjaymwalulkar@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received April 1, 2026; Revised April 30, 2026; Accepted April 30, 2026, Published April 30, 2026

Abstract

Osteoporosis remains under-recognized among postmenopausal women despite its strong association with fracture risk and long term disability. Therefore, it is of interest evaluate awareness, attitudes and preventive practices and correlated them with bone mineral density using DEXA in 200 postmenopausal women. Low bone mass was highly prevalent, with 46% osteopenia and 25% osteoporosis, while only 39% demonstrated adequate awareness and preventive practices were limited. Higher awareness and regular preventive behaviors were significantly associated with normal bone mineral density and older age, lower BMI, poor awareness and lack of exercise predicted low bone density. Thus, strengthening education, screening access and lifestyle interventions is essential to improve bone health outcomes in this population.

Keywords

Osteoporosis, postmenopausal women, awareness, attitudes, preventive practices, bone mineral density, DEXA scan, health education, risk factors, osteoporosis prevention

Citation

Singh & Walulkar, Bioinformation 22(4): 1991-1995 (2026)

Edited by

A Prashanth

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.