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Patient Handout Endocrinology and metabolism

Osteoporosis and bone fragility fractures in women

Terry Diamond, Terry Golombik
Abstract

This handout provides information on the different factors that increase fracture risk in postmenopausal women and how this risk can be reduced. This copy of the handout is the updated version, published in July 2010 in the Medicine Today supplement entitled Osteoporosis.