Let’s make some noise about osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a global pandemic, but many things can be done today, safely and cheaply, to prevent fractures and reduce fracture-associated morbidity and mortality, write Prof John Carey and Dr Miriam Delaney Osteoporosis is a global pandemic and its incidence is rising sharply as the world’s population ages. International experts have declared a crisis as the majority of people with this disease remain undiagnosed and untreated. Diagnosis and treatment rates are falling in some countries, mainly out of fear of treatment, yet the problem is the disease, with its devastation and mortality. The importance of osteoporosis lies in the fractures…