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Osteoporosis
About Osteoporosis
Bones quietly thin until a hip or spine fractures. Called a silent disease because symptoms appear only at fracture. One in three women and one in five men over 50 will break a bone from it. Hip fractures kill up to a third of victims within a year.
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