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Men told to watch their step -- consequences of the failure to treat osteoporosis

01-23-2007 · EurekAlert!

Garvan scientists say that men need to realize osteoporosis is not just a disease of elderly women and that once men over the age of 60 have had a fracture, around one in three will have broken another bone within just a few years.

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