CHAPTER 27—OSTEOPOROSIS AND OSTEOMALACIA

In 1990 more than 1.25 million hip fractures were reported worldwide in women, and 500,000 in men. In the United States the estimated numbers of hip and vert ebral fractures in women are more than 250,000 and 500,000, respectively, per year. To this number must be added fragility fractures in men, which occur at

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