bone density

Researchers at the Yale College of Medicine in the Connecticut, United States have revealed that wrinkles on a woman's face can detect how likely she is to suffer from bone fractures.

For instance, women with wrinklier skin are more likely to have brittle bones. This condition can raise the risk of suffering from osteoporosis and hard-to-heal fractures in old age.

Though the most aggressive prostate cancers are known to afflict bones too, the connection between bone characteristics, prostate cancer development, and its metastasis was still unclear.

“We reasoned there may be some difference between men who develop prostate cancer, especially metastatic disease, and those who don’t, and it was logical to see if there was something different about their bones,” study’s lead researcher, Stacy Loeb, a resident in the Department of Urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine said.

Details of the study