Prevalence and Awareness of Osteoporosis Among Postmenopausal Palestinian Women Intissar Abd-Alhameed * , Elias Saba @ and Hisham M. Darwish * *Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, AlQuds University, Abu-Dies- Jerusalem-Palestine. @ Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation, and the Palestinian Osteoporosis Prevention Society, Bethlehem, West Bank-Palestine. Address correspondence to: Professor Hisham M. Darwish Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, Abu Dies, Jerusalem, Palestine. Tel.: +970-2-2799203, Mobile : + 970599822963, +970599912896 Fax : + 970-2-2796110, +970-2-2980367 Email: darwish@planet.edu Disclosure of conflicts of interest: The authors declare that design, content and results of the present study do not represent or are linked to any conflict of interest of any form to all of them or their institutions. Miniabstract. The prevalence and awareness of postmenopausal osteoporosis was assessed among 569 postmenopausal women randomly selected from the population. Osteoporosis was assessed based on BMD values at three indicative sites. The results 1