Nation's hip fracture rate could drop 25 percent with aggressive osteoporosis prevention
Monday, November 2, 2009 - 12:35
in Health & Medicine
Aggressively managing patients at risk for osteoporosis could reduce the hip fracture rate in the United States by 25 percent, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the November issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. The first step must be a more active role by orthopaedic surgeons in osteoporosis disease management, researchers say...