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Osteoporosis Goes Unnoticed
Rebecca Voelker
JAMA. 2000;284:2309.
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Osteoporosis may remain undiagnosed and untreated in a large proportion of older Canadians who already have suffered an initial fracture associated with fragile bones, according to a new study.
Even though osteoporosis is difficult to detect before a fracture, researchers at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and the University of Toronto surveyed patients who had been treated for a first fracture attributed to weakened bones. The study included 108 patients—96 women and 12 men with a mean age of 64 years—treated at three Ontario community hospitals.
In the October Canadian Medical Association Journal, the researchers reported that only 19% of the patients had been diagnosed with osteoporosis before their hospital visit or within 1 year afterward. All who had been diagnosed were postmenopausal women; most were advised to take calcium supplements and about half had been told to take supplements of vitamin D. Of those diagnosed, 40% . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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