Osteoporosis screening guidelines miss many younger post-menopausal women

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

The United States Preventive Services Task Force strategy to predict the risk of osteoporotic fractures among women aged 50 to 64 failed to detect nearly 75 percent of those who went on to experience major fractures within 10 years, a study has found.

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