Anyone who is taking glucocorticoid medications and has other risk factors for osteoporosis at increased risk of getting glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis and breaking a bone (fracture). You can change some of these risk factors, but not others. Major risk factors that you cannot change include:
Modem vs. Router. Modems and routers are both involved in connecting your home PCs to the Internet. The modem encodes and decodes data so that it can pass between your home network and your Internet Service Provider (ISP). The router, on the other hand, directs the information collected by the modem to devices within that network. The modem brings the information in, and the router distributes (or âroutesâ) it to different devices like computers and phones.
This box is usually both a router and a modem. A modem is a device that negotiates the connection with your ISP through your telephone line while a router is a device that is used to connect two networks together, in this case your network to your modem. Traditionally modems were stand alone devices that can be connected straight to your computer or to a router.