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Answers: A and C - Lack of weight-bearing exercise and tobacco and alcohol use are risk factors for osteoporosis. Low testosterone in men and being female are also risk factors. Being male and high testosterone in women are not risk factors.
In people with osteoporosis, the bones in the upper spine develop small compression fractures. These bones heal into wedge shapes, and the upper spinae assumes the shape of a deformed curve known as a “dowager’s hump.”