Extremely high risk of further fractures in osteoporosis sufferers

Bone fractures due to osteoporosis are a major risk for the elderly. It is therefore all the more important to identify people at risk. An international team of authors with the participation of scientists from Med Uni Graz has analyzed how high the risk is of suffering a second bone fracture after the first: The risk is almost 90 percent higher. Scientists from more than one hundred institutions collaborated on the meta-analysis, which has now been published in "Osteoporosis International". The first author is John Kanis from the University of Sheffield, and Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch from the Clinical Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology at Med Uni Graz was also a co-author. The scientists used primary data of patients from 64 databases practically worldwide. "We examined data from 665,971 men and from 1,438,535 million women from 32 countries.