- The average primary care doctor sees 54 women a week over the age of fifty. On average, of these 54 women, 30% have osteoporosis.
- The average number of patients diagnosed with osteoporosis per week per primary care physician is only ONE.
- A Gallup Survey of Women ages 45 - 75 indicates that three out of four have NEVER SPOKEN to a doctor about osteoporosis.
- 28 million people have osteoporosis in this country and most don't know it.
- Osteoporosis leads to 1.5 million fractures each year.
- $18 billion dollars is spent on treating those fractures.
- Patients' risk of osteoporotic fracture is greater than their combined risk for heart attack, stroke, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer.
- The risk of death from osteoporosis in women equals the risk of death from breast cancer.
- 50% of women over age fifty will have some type of osteoporotic fracture in their lifetime.
- 50% of the people suffering an osteoporotic hip fracture won't walk again.
- 20% of the people suffering a hip fracture die within one year.
- Almost half of women 65 and older suffering an osteoporotic fracture of the hip die within the first year,
- 250 million women worldwide have osteoporosis now.
- By the year 2020, the number of women affected is projected to double.
- Bone mineral density (BND) testing is the only practical way to detect low bone mass.
(*Source - World Organization Organization and National Osteoporosis Foundation.)
