Osteoporosis and vertebral trabecular bone health: an historico-anthropological perspective

Francesco M. Galassi; Elena Varotto

doi:10.18778/1898-6773.86.1.02

Authors

Francesco M. Galassi FAPAB Research Center, Avola (SR), Sicily, Italy; Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-136 Lodz, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8902-3142
Elena Varotto FAPAB Research Center, Avola (SR), Sicily, Italy; 3Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6637-9402

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1898-6773.86.1.02

Keywords:

osteoporosis, trabecular bone, endocrinology, history of anthropology, biological anthropology, palaeopathology

Abstract

This brief review article aims to recapitulate the history of osteoporosis from the most ancient observations to the current clinical definition, by offering a perspective on trabecular bone health and degeneration, which has become of paramount important both in clinical, radiological and biological anthropological studies.

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