Patients with indolent systemic mastocytosis exhibit a distinct vertebral fracture pattern, marked by a predominance of ...

Because there are typically no symptoms until the first fracture occurs, osteoporosis is considered a silent disease. Some call it a silent killer. Osteoporosis is a bone disease characterized by ...

Osteoporosis can have a big, negative effect on a person’s quality of life. In addition to the disability that may be caused ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed 39% of patients were diagnosed with osteoporosis after periprosthetic femur fracture. Of the ...

An ultrasound exam of the heel combined with an assessment of specific risk factors for bone loss and falling can help predict fracture risk due to osteoporosis, a new study suggests. Researchers say ...

Osteoporosis screening in an older woman. Postmenopausal women have little awareness of osteoporotic fracture risk and poor understanding that a fragility fracture may be indicative of osteoporosis ...

Scientists at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have made a great leap forward in predicting the risk of hip fracture among women ...

Credit: Getty Images. By 2030, the number of adults with osteoporosis or low bone mass is estimated to increase by more than 30%, to 71 million. The Conversation — Because there are typically no ...

The study predicts that the total cost of care associated with osteoporotic fractures will be $95 billion in 2040. The additional costs of osteoporosis and subsequent bone fractures topped $6.3 ...

Osteoporosis affects about 10 million individuals in the United States, a number that is expected to increase substantially in coming decades as the elderly population burgeons. The chief debilitating ...

Because there are typically no symptoms until the first fracture occurs, osteoporosis is considered a silent disease. Some call it a silent killer. Osteoporosis is a bone disease characterized by ...