Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate osteoporosis associated with pregnancy and lactation in the early postpartum period. A cross-sectional study was conducted on pregnant women suffering from osteoporosis from several different hospitals in Iraq, where 20 patients with ages ranging from 20-40 years were included. Information and demographic data of patients were analyzed using IBM SPSS SOFT 20, Microsoft Excel 2013.The patient MEAN ±SD was 30+5.5 years old at symptom onset height, and weight mean ± sd were 160±3.6 cm and 55.4±4.4 kg, respectively. The study revealed the presence of disturbances in the results of biological tests, as it was observed that there were disturbances in Urinary calcium (mg/24 hours).In this study, the comparative design was relied on according to the age of pregnant women to know Changes in Bone Mineral Density at 1-Year Follow-up results also showed improvements in L-BMD and H- BMD ratios (0.955 ± 0.155) (0.933±0.140) respectively of age between 30-40 and high values of ucOC in addition to the effective contribution of vitamin D3 in reducing osteoporosis

Keywords

D3, Follow, pregnancy, BMD, L-BMD, DXA, ucOC, NTX