FACTS ABOUT OSTEOPOROSIS
Osteoporosis is largely preventable. Targeted health interventions now could drastically curb the incidence of osteoporosis and fracture morbidity, which currently stands at a fracture every eight minutes and increasing.
- One woman in two, and one man in three, over 60 will suffer a bone fracture because of osteoporosis.
- The most common fracture is the hip and one in two people
will require long term nursing care as a result.
- One in five will die from complications within 12 months of fracturing their hip.
- By 2020 one in three hospital beds will be taken up by people with osteoporosis.
- The cost of osteoporosis to the community is estimated at $2 billion per annum in health costs.