20Oct, 2015
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Canadian Health&Care Mall News: Osteoporosis
The worldwide incidence of VCF is 1 in 3 women and 1 in 8 menover 50 years of age. Osteoporosis is the most common condition associated with painful vertebral body compression fractures, resulting in over 500,000 fractures in the United States in 2005. According to the report of the U.S. Surgeon General, in 2004, osteoporosis-related fractures resulted in more than 432,000 hospital admissions, almost 2.5 million medical office visits, and about 180,000 nursing home admissions. The mean length of stay for management of a VCF was 10.1 days with an […]
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