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Osteoporosis: the bone loss disease

Osteoporosis is one of a small number of common metabolic diseases that show no symptoms until there’s a crisis. What’s the crisis? Bone fracture. How common is it? Fifty percent of all women and 21% of all men 50 years or older experience one or more osteoporosis-related fractures in their lifetime. While the condition is generally four times more prevalent in women, that doesn’t mean men can afford to ignore it.

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