"Red Hot Mamas" Tackle Osteoporosis

(story courtesy of Newstream)

You're never too old to be a "Red Hot Mama!" Starting this month, women over 65 are coming together in local communities across the country to take control and arrest bone loss, through a program called "Arrest Bone Loss-It's Never Too Late To Take Action." The effort is designed to encourage women to become deputies of their own health and protect bone loss.

Prime Plus/Red Hot Mamas®, the nation's largest menopause education and support group and Berlex Laboratories, Inc., the makers of Climara (estradiol transdermal system), the nation's number one prescribed estrogen patch, have teamed up to promote healthy bones in women 65 years and older. Through education on bone loss, post-menopausal health, lifestyle modifications and the role that estrogen replacement can play in preserving bone density, the goal is to empower women with the knowledge to take action against the bone-thinning disease called osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis affects 28 million Americans, 80 percent of whom are women. Due to the dramatic drop in drop in estrogen production, women who have undergone natural or surgical menopause are especially at risk for losing up to 20 percent of their bone mass within the first five to seven years following menopause.

Estrogens should not be used by patients with known or suspected pregnancy, breast cancer, estrogen-dependant neoplasia, undiagnosed abnormal genital bleeding, active thrombophlebitis, or thromboembolic disorders. Estrogens have been reported to increase the risk of endometrial carcinoma. ---------------

Produced for Berlex Laboratories, Inc.
Contact:
Kiersten Rogers, 212-891-0448
Christina Lorenzo, 212-891-0444
Megan Loiaconi, 212-891-0412