老年人,尤其是绝经后的妇女易患骨质疏松症。正常人一般从40岁开始出现骨质减少,每年约以0.3％～0.5％的速度递减,而妇女绝经后,由于雌性激素的活性明显降低,骨质减少的速度增加了10倍。医学研究发现,老年妇女骨折患者比老年男子多两倍,而其中股骨颈骨折患者高出3倍。近年来,美国医学家经研究发现,绝经后的老年妇女如能适当地补充些硼,可以维持骨骼的正常功能,有效预防骨质疏松症的发生。美国加州大学的科学家曾对已绝经的妇女进行补硼实验研究,结果发现,额外补充少量硼的人,骨骼里钙流失 Older people, especially post-menopausal women, are at risk for osteoporosis. Normal people generally start from the age of 40 years of osteopenia, about 0.3% to 0.5% annual rate of decline, and women after menopause, due to significantly reduced activity of estrogen, osteopenia increased by 10 times. Medical research found that older women had twice as many fractures as older men, and those with femoral neck fractures were three times more likely to have fractures. In recent years, American medical scientists have found that elderly postmenopausal women, if properly supplemented with boron, can maintain the normal function of bone and effectively prevent the occurrence of osteoporosis. Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, have studied boron supplementation in postmenopausal women and found that calcium supplementation in the bones was supplemented with a small amount of boron