Osteoporosis can progress for years without causing symptoms and becoming visible for the first time when a fracture occurs. This characteristic explains, to a large extent, why it continues to be an underdiagnosed and undertreated disease despite the important health and social impact it generates. In the Spanish State, more than three million people suffer osteoporosis and each year there are about 330,000 osteoporotic fractures, some 60,000 o…
Osteoporosis can progress for years without causing symptoms and becoming visible for the first time when a fracture occurs. This characteristic explains, to a large extent, why it continues to be an underdiagnosed and undertreated disease despite the important health and social impact it generates. In the Spanish State, more than three million people suffer osteoporosis and each year there are about 330,000 osteoporotic fractures, some 60,000 o…