Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

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Abstract
Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, the United States, and Japan.1 It is a preventable and treatable condition, yet many people with osteoporosis remain unrecognized and untreated. The purpose of this review is to consider the evidence that treatments for postmenopausal osteoporosis are effective and safe.Definition of OsteoporosisDefinitions of osteoporosis have usually been conceptual and therefore difficult to apply to individual patients. For example, a Consensus Development Conference defined osteoporosis as “a systemic skeletal disease characterised by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration with a consequent increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture.”1 A . . .