Health Promotion and Maintenance Q 50

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Nurse Michelle is caring for an elderly female with osteoporosis. When teaching the client, the nurse should include information about which major complication:

  

     A. Bone fracture

     B. Loss of estrogen

     C. Negative calcium balance

     D. Dowager’s hump

    

    

Correct Answer: A. Bone fracture

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Bone fracture is a major complication of osteoporosis that results when a loss of calcium and phosphate increases the fragility of bones.

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Option B: Estrogen deficiencies result from menopause and not osteoporosis.

Option C: Calcium and vitamin D supplements may be used to support normal bone metabolism, But a negative calcium balance isn’t a complication of osteoporosis.

Option D: Dowager’s hump results from bone fractures. It develops when repeated vertebral fractures increase spinal curvature.

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