Primary Prevention of Osteoporosis: Time to Redefine the Wheel?

Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 1000e107 many more disease cases than a high risk exposure to a small number of people [2]. Hence, a preventative strategy targeting only high-risk individuals may benefit these individuals, but the total burden of the disease within the population will be less affected [2]. Unfortunately, the trends in previous guidelines and advocacies for prevention, treatment and management of osteoporosis have largely targeted high-risk individuals [3]. As a result, whilst tremendous breakthrough has been achieved via therapeutic interventions to increase bone mass density as well as reduce the incidence of fragility fracture among osteoporotic populations, the global prevalence of osteoporosis has been less abated [4,5]. It, thus, appears that interpretation and implementation of significant bone health research findings have suffered incomplete translation into widespread preventative strategies for combating the incidence and prevalence of osteoporosis.