[Evaluation of the risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal patients in the Hospital Luis Castelazo Ayala of the Mexican Social Security Institute, using a risk factor questionnaire]. / Evaluación del riesgo de osteoporosis en pacientes posmenopáusicas en el Hospital Luis Castelazo Ayala del IMSS, utilizando un cuestionario de factores de riesgo.

Osteoporosis has a great impact on the population due to economic and health implications. For these reasons there is great interest to find the best prevention, diagnosis and treatment criteria. Postmenopausal women are at increased risk due to estrogen deficiency that is present in this stage of life. Through an oral interview the risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women was evaluated. The questionnaire was applied to 150 postmenopausal patients, questioning age, ethnic group, history of rheumatoid arthritis, use of estrogenic replacement therapy and body weight. Osteoporosis risk considered when a punctuation of 6 or greater. It was found that 85 of the patients had a punctuation of 6 or greater, with a mean punctuation of 7.5, indicating the risk of osteoporosis in our population. The most important factors that increased the punctuation and the risk to present osteoporosis were body weight and the lack of estrogen replacement therapy. We consider that these kind of questionnaires may be useful to detect the population at risk for osteoporosis and in base to this the adequate exams for diagnosis must be ordered.