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1 How to Calculate Your Body Mass Index (BMI) Body mass index (BMI) is a measure based on height and weight that applies to both adult men and women. BMI Categories: Underweight = below 18.5 Normal weight = Overweight = Obesity = 30 or greater Imperial BMI Formula BMI weight in pounds X 703 = height in inches 2 Metric BMI Formula BMI = weight in kilograms height in meters 2 How to Estimate Your Alcohol Consumption A unit of alcohol is equivalent to 10 ml (or approximately 8 grams) of pure ethanol, the active chemical ingredient in alcoholic beverages. Excessive alcohol consumption increases the risk of osteoporosis and fractures.

2 What is Osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a disease in which the density and quality of bone is reduced, leading to weakness of the skeleton and increased risk of fracture, particularly of the spine, wrist, hip, pelvis and upper arm. Osteoporosis and associated fractures can have serious health repercussions and are an important cause of mortality and morbidity, often resulting in pain, long-term disability, and loss of independence. normal bone osteoporotic bone Take Action for Healthy Bones! Even if you have no or few risk factors you should nevertheless take action to improve your bone health through positive lifestyle changes that include: Regular weight-bearing and muscle strengthening exercise Healthy nutrition rich in calcium and protein, as well as adequate vitamin D intake through safe exposure to sunlight, and supplementation if you are over 60 years of age Avoiding unhealthy habits such as smoking and excessive alcohol intake IOF - International Osteoporosis Foundation 9 rue Juste-Olivier CH-1260 Nyon Switzerland T +41 (0) F +41 (0) info@iofbonehealth.org

3 IOF One-Minute Osteoporosis Risk Test Are You at Risk of Osteoporosis? Around the world, one in three women, and one in five men over the age of fifty will suffer a broken bone due to osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a silent disease which weakens bones and increases the risk of fractures, often resulting in pain and long-term disability. Take this IOF One-Minute Osteoporosis Risk Test and find out if you are at risk. IOF

4 အ ပည ပည ဆ င ရ အရ ပ ရ ဂ ဖ Your Non-modifiable Risk Factors What you cannot change! These are risk factors that one is born with or cannot alter. Nevertheless, it is important to be aware of risk factors you can not change so that steps can be taken to reduce loss of bone mineral. (၁) သင အ ဖ/အ မတ င အရ ပ ရ ဂ ရ ပ သလ?(သ ႕မဟ တ ) လ တစ ရပအ မင မ ပ တ က ခင ဖင အရ က ဖ ပ သလ? (၂) သင အ ဖ/အ မသည န က က အ ရ ႕သ ႕က န နပ သလ? (၃) သင သည အသက (၄၀) စ င အထက ဖစ ပ လ? (၄) သင သည အရ ယ ရ က ပ အခ န တင လ တစ ရပ အ မင မ ပ တ က ပ န က အရ က ဖ ပ သလ? (၅) သင သည မၾက ခဏ ပ တ က ဖ ပ သလ (ဥပမ - တစ စ အတ င တစ ၾက မ ထက ပ ပ ပ တ က ဖ ပ သလ ) သ ႔မဟ တ သင သည အ အင ခ န ႕ နပ သ ဖင ပ တ က မည စ ရ မ စ တ ရ ပ သလ? (၆) အသက( ၄၀) စ န က ပ င သင အရပ သည (၃) စင တ မ တ (၁လက မ က ရ လ )ထက ပ ပ မ က သ ပ သလ? (၇) သင သည သ မ န ရ ရမည က ယ အ လ ခ န ထက လ နည နပ သလ? (သင BMIသည (၁၉) အ က ဖစ နပ သလ )? (၈) သင သည စတ ရ က ပ သ ဆ မ က သ လဆက တ က ထက ပ ပ သ က သ ဖ ပ သလ? (ပန န ရင ၾကပ သ လ ဘက န အဆစ ရ င ရ ဂ င အခ ႕ သ ရ င ရမ ခင ရ ဂ မ အတ က )

5 င ဒ ရ င အခ န တစ မ နစ သ ၾက မင မည ပ ပင ပ င လ မရ င သ အရ ပ င ခ န မ (၉) သင တ င သ လ ဘက န အဆစ ရ င ရ ဂ ရ ပ သလ? (၁၀) သင တ င လည ပင ဟ မ န မ သ ရ ဂ အမ အစ (၁)ဆ ခ ရ ဂ အစ အ မ င အ လမ ၾက င ဆ င ရ ရ ဂ မ ဖစ ဖ ပ သလ? အမ သမ (၁၁) အသက (၄၅) စ င အထက ဖစ ပ က သင သည အသက (၄၅) စ မတ င မ ဓမၼတ ပ ဆ ပ သလ? (၁၂) က ယ ဝန ဆ င ခင ဓမၼတ ပ ဆ ခင (သ ႕မဟ တ ) သ အ မ ထ တ ခင မရ ဘ (၁၂)လဆက တ က င အထက ဓမၼတ ရပ ဖ ပ သလ? (၁၃) သင သည ဟ မ န အစ ထ က သမမ ရ ဘ အသက (၅၀) စ မတ င မ သ ဥအ မ ထ တ ဖ ပ သလ? အမ သ (၁၄) သင တ င က ဟ မ န လ နည ခင င သက ဆ င သ က မအ လ နည ခင က မစ တမ ရ ခင (သ ႕မဟ တ ) တ ခ သ လကၡဏ မ ခ စ နရပ သလ? ပ ပင ပ င လ ရ သ အရ ပ င ခ န မ These are modifiable risk factors which primarily arise because of diet or lifestyle choices. (၁၅) သင သည တစ န႕က အရက( ၂)ယ နစ ထက ပ ပ ပ မ န သ က ပ သလ?

6 အရ ပ င ခ န စမ သပ မ မ ခ န (၁၆) ဆ လ ပ သ က ဖ ပ သလ?(သ ႕မဟ တ ) ယခ လက ရ ဆ လ ပ သ က နပ သလ? (၁၇) သင သည တစ န႕တ လ ပ ရ သ လ မ မ နစ (၃၀) ထက နည ပ သလ? (၁၈) ကယ စ ယမ ပ သ ဖည စ က စ မ စ သ ခင မ ပ ဘ သင သည န ႕ င ႔ထ က ပစၥည မ စ သ မ က ရ င ရ ပ သလ?(သ ႕မဟ တ ) ဓ တ မတည မ ဖစ ပ ပ သလ? (၁၉) ဗ တ မင ဒ ဓ တ ပ သ ဖည စ က စ မ စ သ ခင မ ပ ဘ သင ခ ၶ က ယ က န ရ င ခည ထ တ ႕မ တစ န႕(၁၀)မ နစ ထကန ည ပ သလ? အထက ဖ ပပ အခ က အလက မ သင တ င ရ ပ က သင သည အရ ပ င ခ န ရ ပ န က ဆကတ အ န ဖင အရ ပ ရ ဂ င အရ ပ ဆက ယ အရ က ခ င မ သင တ င ခ စ ရရ င ပ သည သင သည အသက( ၅၀) င အထက ဖစ ပ သင တ င အရ ပ င ခ န တစ ခ (သ ႕မဟ တ ) တစ ခ ထက ပ ပ က ဆရ ဝန င တ င ပင ပသ စစ ဆ မ ပ လ ပ သင ပ သည အရ ပ င ခ န (သ ႕မဟ တ ) အသက င ရ ဂ လကၡဏ မ အ ပၚမ တည ပ အရ သတ ဓ တ သ ပ သည မ က DXA ခၚ အရ သ ပ သည မ က တ င တ သ ဓ တ မ န ရ က ခင ပ လ ပ ရမည

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