osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease. in addition to morbidity, osteoporotic fractures also increase mortality risk in affected patients. enough evidence is not available to indicate that, like western countries, osteoporosis is a public health problem in iran. therefore emrc planned to estimate the burden of osteoporotic fractures in year 2001 based on existing sources of dat...

Correspondence to : Taechakraichana N, Menopausal Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Rama IV Rd, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Phone: 0-2256-4164 ext. 205 Fax: 0-22511796, E-mail: [email protected] Osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease in humans. It is characterized by low bone mass, microarchitectural deterioratio...

UNLABELLED This report describes epidemiology, burden, and treatment of osteoporosis in each of the 27 countries of the European Union (EU27). INTRODUCTION In 2010, 22 million women and 5.5 million men were estimated to have osteoporosis in the EU; and 3.5 million new fragility fractures were sustained, comprising 620,000 hip fractures, 520,000 vertebral fractures, 560,000 forearm fractures a...

BACKGROUND Standardized methodologies for assessing economic burden of injury at the national or international level do not exist. OBJECTIVE To measure national incidence, medical costs, and productivity losses of medically treated injuries using the most recent data available in the United States, as a case study for similarly developed countries undertaking economic burden analyses. METHO...

Background: Ageing of population worldwide will be responsible for a major increase of the incidence of osteoporosis in elderly. For the individual, osteoporotic fractures result in great disability as well as loss of quality of life and also represent an enormous burden for healthcare systems. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis and it's association with serum ...

Increased fragility fracture rates, increased morbidity and mortality, a tremendous economic burden are all linked to osteoporosis poor bone health. Osteoporosis, like many other diseases, benefits from early detection prevention. The imaging quantification of mineral density crucial in the diagnosis osteoporosis. Abdominal thoracic CT provide valuable opportunity for screening. Despite signifi...