The study carried out on 83 patients with osteoporpsis in the department of Intrenal medicine 2 of Viet Tiep hospital from February of 2009 to February of 2010 shows the following results: women are more than men (66.3 percent compared to 35.8 percent) and most of patient live in rural area (33.7 percent in rural area compared to 26.4 percent in urban area), the age of 60 to 69 is major (40.8 percent). The symptom of bone pain often occurs on the patient aged more than 70 years, which presents mostly with long bone pain. The result of spine x-ray on patients of more than 70 years old shows that the major images are X-ray absorptionmetry (33.5 percent) and "weeper border" (35.3 percent), The "brief images" is less than that (31 percent). The Meurier's level III, IV and V are determined regularly especially at the age of more than 70. The level I and II are found at the age of 50-59. The result of bone mineral density measurement
The highest rate is osteoporosis (42.7 percent), severe osteoporosis was found at low rate (9.6 percent), the low bine mass occupies 40.8 percent.