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Age-related bone loss and postmenopausal osteoporosis are disorders of bone remodelling, in which less bone is reformed than resorbed. Yet, this dysregulation of bone remodelling does not occur equally in all bone regions. Loss of bone is more pronounced near and at the endocortex, leading to cortical wall thinning and medullary cavity expansion, a process sometimes referred to as trabecularisation or cancellisation. Cortical wall thinning is of primary concern in osteoporosis due to the strong deterioration of bone mechanical properties that it is associated with. In this paper, we examine the possibility that the non-uniformity of microscopic bone surface availability could explain the non-uniformity of bone loss in osteoporosis. We use a computational model of bone remodelling in which microscopic bone surface availability influences bone turnover rate and simulate the evolution of the bone volume fraction profile across the midshaft of a long bone. We find that bone loss is accelerated near the endocortical wall where the specific surface is highest. Over time, this leads to a substantial reduction of cortical wall thickness from the endosteum. The associated expansion of the medullary cavity can be made to match experimentally observed cross-sectional data from the Melbourne Femur Collection. Finally, we calculate the redistribution of the mechanical stresses in this evolving bone structure and show that mechanical load becomes critically transferred to the periosteal cortical bone.
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