ВЛИЯНИЕ ОСТЕОПОРОЗА НА КАЧЕСТВО ЖИЗНИ ЖЕНЩИН В ПЕРИОД МЕНОПАУЗЫ

The scientific research is being made in the City Center of Osteoporosis (Minsk, Belarus). Objective: to determine changes of the quality of life (QL) measures in patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis (stage I of research). The research includes the general questionnaire SF - 36 and the ternary numerical assessment scale. In the course of research statistically significant differences of QL measures in the base group in comparison with the control group have been revealed. Osteoporosis exerts negative effects on the quality of life of postmenopausal women. QL measures can be used for assessment offunctional state ofpatients with this pathology.