Age
This factor plays a major role in developing osteoporosis, especially in people that are sixty-five years old and beyond. Bones in the human body are in a constant state of renewal, that is, new bones are produced and old ones are broken down. When you are young, your body makes new bones faster than it breaks down old ones, and the mass increases.
After the teenage years, this process slows, and most people reach their peak mass by thirty years of age. As people grow in adulthood, bone mass is lost faster than it’s created. How possible it is for a human body to have OST relies partly on the rate of bone mass the body attained at a young age. Peak mass is sometimes inherited and differences among ethnic groups. The higher the peak bone mass, the more bone the body has in store, and the less likely the body is to develop OST as the human body age.