Osteoporosis

Millions of sufferers go undiagnosed, study reports

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 19th, 2004

Despite recent gains in the awareness and treatment of osteoporosis, millions of Americans who have the disease remain undiagnosed and untreated and may learn of their condition only when they suffer a fracture, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers report.

Writing in the July 26, 2004, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, the research group estimates that fewer than half of the people with osteoporosis have been recognized as such.

"If a person's doctor hasn't diagnosed osteoporosis, there's no way they could be on optimal treatment for their bone condition," said Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in...

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