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Treatment of Low Bone Density or Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures in Men and Women

Paul D. Miller, MD

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As a specialist in metabolic bone disease who prescribes a large amount of anabolic agents to improve bone strength, I am concerned about Qaseem and colleagues' clinical practice guideline for women with osteoporosis (1), which focuses only on treatment with antiresorptive therapies. This guideline fails to acknowledge or address what has become a crisis in health care, with the yearly incidence of osteoporotic fractures affecting more women in the United States than stroke, heart attack, and breast cancer combined. Once a patient has had a first osteoporotic fracture, her risk for another fracture is 5...
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Miller PD. Treatment of Low Bone Density or Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures in Men and Women. Ann Intern Med. 2017;167:903–904. doi: 10.7326/L17-0486

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2017;167(12):903-904.

DOI: 10.7326/L17-0486

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