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Causes of Osteoporosis

This section discusses 266 medical conditions causing Osteoporosis. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.

Causes of Osteoporosis:

The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Osteoporosis. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.

Causes of Osteoporosis listed in Disease Database:

Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible causes of Osteoporosis as a symptom include:

- (Source - Diseases Database)

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Osteoporosis:

The following list of conditions have 'Osteoporosis' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

A

  • Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Achalasia - addisonianism - alacrima syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Achalasia - Addisonianism - Alacrimia syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • ACPS III ... osteoporosis
  • Acrocephalopolydactyly - Cardiac Disease - Ear, Skin and Lower Limb Defects ... osteoporosis
  • Acrocephalopolysyndactyly type III ... osteoporosis
  • Acroosteolysis neurogenic ... osteoporosis
  • Adrenal adenoma, familial ... osteoporosis
  • Adrenal Cancer ... osteoporosis
  • Adrenal Cortex Diseases ... osteoporosis
  • Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms ... osteoporosis
  • Adrenal gland hyperfunction ... osteoporosis
  • Adrenal incidentaloma ... osteoporosis
  • Adrenocortical carcinoma ... osteoporosis
  • Andropause ... osteoporosis
  • Aromatase deficiency ... osteoporosis
  • Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita - pulmonary hypoplasia ... osteoporosis
  • Aspartylglucosaminidase deficiency ... osteoporosis
  • Aspartylglucosaminuria ... osteoporosis
  • Aspartylglycosaminuria ... osteoporosis
  • Aural atresia - multiple congenital anomalies - mental retardation ... osteoporosis
  • Autoimmune thyroid disease associated Celiac Disease ... Osteopenia

    B

  • Boyd-Stearns syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Brachydactylous dwarfism, Mseleni type ... osteopenia
  • Brachydactyly - tibial hypoplasia ... osteoporosis

    C

  • Cantu Sanchez-Corona Garcia-cruz syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Cantú syndrome ... osteopenia
  • Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosus ... osteoporosis
  • Chemical poisoning - White Phosphorus ... osteoporosis
  • Cholestasis ... osteoporosis
  • Chromosome 1, deletion q21 q25 ... osteoporosis
  • Collagenous celiac disease ... Osteopenia
  • Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation Type Ia ... osteopenia
  • Cushing syndrome, familial ... osteoporosis
  • Cushing's syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Cutis laxa - osteoporosis ... osteoporosis

    D

  • Davis syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Del(1) (23-q25) ... osteoporosis
  • Dibasic aminoaciduria 2 ... osteoporosis
  • Down's syndrome associated Celiac Disease ... Osteopenia
  • Dyskeratosis Congenita ... osteoporosis

    E

  • Eccentrochondrodysplasia ... osteoporosis
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, progeroid form ... osteopenia
  • Excessive dieting ... osteoporosis

    F

  • Fanconi-Albertini-Zellweger syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Fanconi-ichthyosis-dysmorphism ... osteoporosis
  • Fontaine-Farriaux-Blanckaert syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor ... osteoporosis

    G

  • Geroderma osteodysplastica ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Gerodermia osteodysplastica ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Gerodermia osteodysplastica hereditaria ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Gerodermia osteodysplasticum ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Global developmental delay - osteopenia - ectodermal defect ... osteopenia
  • Gnathodiaphyseal dysplasia ... osteopenia
  • Gorham's syndrome ... osteoporosis

    H

  • Hajdu-Cheney Syndrome ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Hapnes-Boman-Skeie syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Homocystinuria ... osteoporosis
  • Homocystinuria due to cystathionine beta-synthase deficiency ... osteoporosis
  • Hutchinson Gilford Syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Hyper IgE ... osteoporosis
  • Hyperadrenalism ... osteoporosis
  • Hyperdibasic aminoaciduria type 2 ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Hyperglycerolemia, infantile form ... osteoporosis
  • Hyperprolactinemia ... Osteoporosis
  • Hypertrichotic osteochondrodysplasia ... osteoporosis
  • Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism - syndactyly ... osteoporosis

    I

  • Immunodeficiency with short limb dwarfism ... osteoporosis
  • Infantile multisystem inflammatory disease ... osteoporosis
  • Infantile sialic acid storage disorder ... osteopenia
  • Intellectual deficit - cataracts - calcified pinnae - myopathy ... osteoporosis
  • Iridogoniodysgenesis and skeletal anomalies ... osteopenia

    J

  • Jacobsen syndrome ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Job syndrome ... osteoporosis

    K

  • Kaler-Garrity-Stern syndrome ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Kniest dysplasia ... osteoporosis

    L

  • Larsen syndrome, recessive type ... osteoporosis
  • Larsen-like osseous dysplasia - dwarfism ... osteoporosis
  • Lawrence-Seip syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Lichstenstein syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Lobstein disease ... osteoporosis
  • Lockwood-Feingold syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Lysinuric protein intolerance ... osteoporosis

    M

  • Macroepiphyseal dysplasia with osteoporosis, wrinkled skin, and aged appearance ... osteoporosis
  • Marie-Bamberg syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Mental retardation cataracts calcified pinnae myopathy ... osteoporosis
  • Mental retardation, Buenos Aires type ... osteoporosis
  • Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia Spahr type ... osteoporosis
  • Metaphyseal dysplasia - maxillary hypoplasia - brachydactyly ... osteoporosis
  • Metaphyseal dysplasia Pyle type ... osteoporosis
  • Methylmalonic acidemia, cobalamin A deficiency ... osteoporosis
  • Methylmalonic acidemia, Cobalamin B deficiency ... osteoporosis
  • Methylmalonic acidemia, Methylmalonyl CoA mutase deficiency ... osteoporosis
  • Methylmalonic acidemia, methylmalonyl CoA racemase deficiency ... osteoporosis
  • Microcephaly - mental retardation - retinopathy ... osteoporosis
  • Mixed connective tissue disease ... osteoporosis
  • Morquio syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Morquio syndrome type A ... osteoporosis
  • Morquio syndrome, type B ... osteoporosis
  • Multicentric osteolysis - nodulosis - arthropathy ... osteopenia

    N

  • Nodulosis-arthropathy-osteolysis syndrome ... osteopenia
  • NOMID syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Nonkeratan-sulfate-excreting Morquio syndrome ... osteoporosis

    O

  • OI, Type I ... osteopenia
  • Oncogenic osteomalacia ... osteopenia
  • Ossified Ear cartilages with Mental deficiency, Muscle Wasting and Bony Changes ... osteoporosis
  • Osteochondrodysplatic dwarfism - deafness - retinitis pigmentosa ... osteoporosis
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta, type 6 ... osteopenia
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta, type 7 ... osteopenia
  • Osteolysis hereditary multicentric ... osteoporosis
  • Osteopaenia - myopia - hearing loss - intellectual deficit - facial dysmorphism ... osteopenia
  • Osteoporosis - macrocephaly - blindness - joint hyperlaxity ... osteoporosis
  • Osteoporosis - macrocephaly - mental retardation - blindness ... osteoporosis
  • Osteoporosis - oculocutaneous - hypopigmentation syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Otospondylomegaepiphyseal dysplasia ... osteoporosis
  • Oxalosis ... osteoporosis
  • Oxalosis, type I ... osteoporosis
  • Oxalosis, Type II ... osteoporosis

    P

  • Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, recessive, acute infantile ... osteoporosis
  • Pena Shokeir syndrome, type 1 ... osteoporosis
  • Pena-Shokeir syndrome Type 2 ... osteoporosis
  • Peroxisomal bifunctional enzyme deficiency ... osteopenia
  • Pointer syndrome ... osteopenia
  • Prader-Willi syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Premature aging, Okamoto type ... osteoporosis
  • Primary biliary cirrhosis ... osteoporosis
  • Primrose Syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Prolidase deficiency ... osteoporosis
  • Proximal tubulopathy - diabetes mellitus - cerebellar ataxia ... osteoporosis
  • Pseudoprogeria syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Psychiatric disorders associated Celiac Disease ... Osteopenia

    R

  • Rajab-Spranger syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Refractory Celiac Disease ... Osteopenia
  • Renal osteodystrophy ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Renal tubulopathy - diabetes mellitus - cerebellar ataxia ... osteoporosis
  • Richieri-Costa Da Silva syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Riley Shwachman syndrome ... osteoporosis

    S

  • Sakati syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Short stature - hyperkaliemia - acidosis ... osteoporosis
  • Shprintzen-Golberg craniosynostosis ... osteopenia
  • Singleton-Merten Syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Snyder-Robinson syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Spinal muscular atrophy, type I, with congenital bone fractures ... osteopenia
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia - dysmorphism ... osteoporosis
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia-dysmorphism syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Sponastrime dysplasia ... osteoporosis
  • Spondylo-ocular syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia with multiple dislocations ... osteoporosis
  • Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia with dentinogenesis imperfecta ... osteoporosis
  • Storm syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Stuve-Wiedemann dysplasia ... osteoporosis
  • Stuve-Wiedemann syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Subclinical hyperthyroidism ... osteoporosis
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 1 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 10 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 11 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 12 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 13 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 2 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 3 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 4 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 5 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 6 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 7 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 8 ... Osteopenia
  • Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 9 ... Osteopenia

    T

  • Thick skull syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Tuberous sclerosis ... osteoporosis
  • Turner syndrome associated Celiac Disease ... Osteopenia
  • Type 1 diabetes related Celiac Disease ... Osteopenia

    U

  • Urban rogers meyer syndrome ... osteoporosis

    V

  • Velocardiofacial syndrome ... osteopenia

    W

  • Werner syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • William's syndrome associated Celiac Disease ... Osteopenia
  • Wilson's Disease ... Osteoporosis
  • Winchester Syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Wolman syndrome ... osteoporosis

    X

  • Xylosylprotein 4-beta-galactosyltransferase (XGPT) deficiency ... osteopenia

    Conditions listing medical complications: Osteoporosis:

    The following list of medical conditions have 'Osteoporosis' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

    A

  • Adult Cystic Fibrosis ... osteoporosis
  • Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy ... osteoporosis
  • Alpha thalassemia ... osteoporosis
  • Alpha thalassemia - Hemoglobin H disease ... osteoporosis
  • Alpha thalassemia major ... osteoporosis
  • Anemia, Blackfan Diamond ... osteoporosis
  • Anorexia Nervosa ... osteoporosis

    B

  • Beta thalassemia ... osteoporosis
  • Beta Thalassemia intermedia ... osteoporosis
  • Biliary cirrhosis ... osteoporosis
  • Bronchopulmonary dysplasia ... osteopenia (decrease in bone mass)
  • Brown-Sequard Syndrome ... osteoporosis

    C

  • Celiac Disease ... Osteoporosis
  • Chronic Hepatitis ... osteoporosis
  • Crohn's disease ... Bone loss (osteoporosis)
  • Cushing's syndrome ... osteoporosis

    D

  • Diamond-Blackfan anemia ... osteoporosis

    E

  • Eating disorders ... osteoporosis

    G

  • Galactorrhoea-Hyperprolactinaemia ... osteoporosis
  • Gonadal dysgenesis ... osteoporosis
  • Growth Hormone Receptor Deficiency ... osteopenia

    H

  • Hyalinosis, infantile systemic ... osteopenia

    J

  • Juvenile Paget disease ... osteoporosis, osteopenia

    K

  • Kidney conditions ... osteoporosis
  • Kidney disease ... osteoporosis

    L

  • Lactotroph adenoma ... osteoporosis
  • Laron Dwarfism ... osteopenia
  • Laron Pituitary Dwarfism ... osteopenia
  • Laron Syndrome ... osteopenia
  • Laron Type Pituitary Dwarfism 1 ... osteopenia
  • Laron-type Dwarfism Phenotypic Syndrome ... osteopenia
  • Leukemia, mast-cell ... osteoporosis

    M

  • Menkes Disease ... osteoporosis
  • Menopause ... osteoporosis

    N

  • Neuritis ... osteoporosis

    O

  • Ovarian insufficiency due to FSH resistance ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Ovarian insufficiency, familial ... osteoporosis, osteopenia

    P

  • Paget disease juvenile type ... osteoporosis, osteopenia
  • Pregnancy ... Pregnancy-associated osteoporosis
  • Premature aging ... osteoporosis
  • Primary biliary cirrhosis ... osteoporosis
  • Primary hyperoxaluria type 1 ... osteoporosis
  • Primary hyperoxaluria type 2 ... osteoporosis
  • Prolactinoma ... osteoporosis, bone mass depletion
  • Prolactinoma, familial ... osteoporosis
  • Pure red cell aplasia, congenital ... osteoporosis

    R

  • Renal osteodystrophy ... osteoporosis

    S

  • Secondary Biliary Cirrhosis ... osteoporosis
  • Small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome ... osteoporosis
  • Sub clinical hypothyroidism ... Osteoporosis

    U

  • Ulcerative colitis ... osteoporosis
  • Underweight ... osteoporosis

    W

  • Werner syndrome ... osteoporosis

    More Information About Osteoporosis

    List of 266 causes of Osteoporosis

    This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Osteoporosis in our database from various sources.

    Drug side effect causes of Osteoporosis

    The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins may possibly cause Osteoporosis as a side effect.

    [See detailed list of 4 drug side effect causes of Osteoporosis]

    Drug interaction causes of Osteoporosis:

    Drug interactions may be a possible cause of Osteoporosis.

    • Raloxifene and Prednisone interaction #occurs with long term use of Prednisone
    • Evista and Prednisone interaction #occurs with long term use of Prednisone
    • Raloxifene and Deltasone interaction #occurs with long term use of Deltasone
    • Evista and Deltasone interaction #occurs with long term use of Deltasone
    • Flunisolide and Phenytoin interaction
    [See detailed list of 80 drug interaction causes of Osteoporosis]

    Medical Textbooks about Osteoporosis

    Free online access to excerpts without registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Osteoporosis. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Osteoporosis (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).

    Medical Books Excerpts
    • Osteoporosis
    • "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
     

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