ArticleJournal of men's health2011
Living with a `women's disease': risk appraisal and management among men with osteoporosis.
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- Expressed information needs of patients with osteoporosis and/or fragility fractures: a systematic review.Archives of osteoporosis · 2018Pooled it
- Sex differences in osteoporosis self-efficacy among community-residing older adults presenting for DXA.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2019Trial
- Mapping the quality of information on osteoporosis: a cross-sectional analysis of online health information.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- A reflexive thematic analysis of existential losses in men with osteoporosis: "I'm not the person I was somehow … although I am".BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
- Osteoporosis knowledge, health beliefs, and self-efficacy in Hong Kong Chinese men.Archives of osteoporosis · 2022Article
- Vertebral fracture as a risk factor for self-harm: a retrospective cohort study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
- Effect of dihydrotestosterone, 17-β-estrogen, genistein and equol on remodeling and morphology of bone in osteoporotic male rats during bone healing.Bone reports · 2020Article
- Factors Associated With Osteoporosis Care of Men Hospitalized for Hip Fracture: A Retrospective Cohort Study.JBMR plus · 2019Article
- Osteoporosis prevention: where are the barriers to improvement in a French general population? A qualitative study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2019Article
- Causes, consequences, and treatment of osteoporosis in men.Drug design, development and therapy · 2013Review
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Abstract
backgroundThere is clear evidence that men suffer from osteoporosis (OP) in increasing numbers, but that men commonly remain underdiagnosed, undertreated and experience poorer outcomes than do women. The widespread sociocultural association of OP with postmenopausal women reflects their greater risk for developing the disorder, but the sexing of OP as a women's disease disadvantages at-risk men.
methodsThis paper reports on qualitative data gathered from 23 community-residing men who have an OP diagnosis.
resultsInterviews with men reveal that the sexing of OP as a female disease may affect men's risk appraisal. Men clearly associate OP risk factors with women and accordingly may feel protected from the disorder. Subsequent to diagnosis, men's OP-related risk management strategies reveal that men's gender identity constrains their ability to enact risk-reducing behavior.
conclusionsMen may internalize the association of OP with women and incorporate it into a sense of perceived invulnerability to the condition, which, in turn, contributes to delayed diagnosis and treatment. Limited male-specific treatment and support options as well as social expectations of male gender performance play roles in men's health behavior.
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