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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.