{"id":152820,"date":"2022-12-14T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/speeding-up-bone-healing-in-menopausal-females"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:27:32","slug":"speeding-up-bone-healing-in-menopausal-females","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/speeding-up-bone-healing-in-menopausal-females","title":{"rendered":"Speeding up bone healing in menopausal females"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/speeding-up-bone-healing-in-menopausal-females.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Older women heal bone fractures slower than men. Now a team has found that a single, localized delivery of estrogen to a fracture can speed up healing in postmenopausal mice. The findings could have implications for the way fractures in women are treated in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Over 250,000 hip fractures occur each year in adults aged 65 or older in the U.S., three-quarters of which are female. Within a year, between 15 and 36% of hip fracture patients will die. While staggering, the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/gender+gap\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gender gap<\/a> is unsurprising given that more women than men suffer from osteoporosis, a disease that weakens the bones. And yet, only recently has the scientific community shifted their focus to understanding this difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of stem cell research is done on male animals. There\u2019s very little research that has actually been done on females,\u201d said Wu Tsai Alliance member Charles Chan, Ph.D., an assistant professor of surgery at Stanford University and co-senior author of the paper published Oct. 30 in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>. \u201cThe research is long overdue, especially the question of why women heal differently from men.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older women heal bone fractures slower than men. Now a team has found that a single, localized delivery of estrogen to a fracture can speed up healing in postmenopausal mice. The findings could have implications for the way fractures in women are treated in the future. Over 250,000 hip fractures occur each year in adults [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}