Osteoporosis
How common is osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease in the world. Aging is the main cause of osteoporosis. So as people live longer, it is getting more and more common.
Experts think the number of broken bones caused by osteoporosis could double over the next 50 years.
1 Doctors call broken bones fractures.
Source:
Royal College of Physicians.
Osteoporosis: clinical guidelines for prevention and treatment.
January 2001. Available at http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/wp/wp_osteo_update.htm (accessed on 8 August 2008).
Royal College of Physicians.
Osteoporosis: clinical guidelines for prevention and treatment.
January 2001. Available at http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/wp/wp_osteo_update.htm (accessed on 8 August 2008).
Osteoporosis is common in the United States.
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Source:
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Health topics: osteoporosis overview.
December 2007. Available at http://www.niams.nih.gov/bone/hi/overview.htm (accessed on 11 August 2008).
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Health topics: osteoporosis overview.
December 2007. Available at http://www.niams.nih.gov/bone/hi/overview.htm (accessed on 11 August 2008).
- Experts think that 10 million Americans have osteoporosis.
- About 1 in 2 women and 1 in 4 men over 50 will break a bone because of osteoporosis during the rest of their life.
- Osteoporosis causes more than 1.5 million fractures each year.
- With this condition, fractures of your spine are most common, followed by fractures of your hip, then fractures of your wrist.
Source:
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network.
Management of osteoporosis: a national clinical guideline. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network clinical guideline 71.
August 2007. Available at http://www.sign.ac.uk (accessed on 11 August 2008).
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network.
Management of osteoporosis: a national clinical guideline. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network clinical guideline 71.
August 2007. Available at http://www.sign.ac.uk (accessed on 11 August 2008).
Sources for the information on this page:
- Royal College of Physicians.Osteoporosis: clinical guidelines for prevention and treatment.January 2001. Available at http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/wp/wp_osteo_update.htm (accessed on 8 August 2008).
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.Health topics: osteoporosis overview.December 2007. Available at http://www.niams.nih.gov/bone/hi/overview.htm (accessed on 11 August 2008).
- Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network.Management of osteoporosis: a national clinical guideline. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network clinical guideline 71.August 2007. Available at http://www.sign.ac.uk (accessed on 11 August 2008).
This information was last updated on Apr 21, 2009
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