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AFP released the U.S. Put another real way, today will establish it in the future what are the chances that a girl without osteoporosis? A research team led by former AFP medical editor Margaret Gourlay, MD, MPH shed light on this question by following nearly 5000 U recently.S. 67 years or old with normal BMD or osteopenia for 15 years. They defined the BMD re-testing interval as the estimated time it took for 10% of women to build up osteoporosis before using a hip or clinical vertebral fracture.
According with their record in the January 19th problem of the New England Journal of Medicine, more than 90% of women with initially normal BMD or gentle osteopenia didn’t develop osteoporosis after 15 years. As might be expected, women with moderate and advanced osteopenia progressed faster, with 10% of each group developing osteoporosis after 5 years and 12 months, respectively. This study’s results have considerable implications for family physicians and their patients.
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