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As reported in the New York Times, newly updated guidelines issued by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, suggest that all women 65 and older undergo bone density screening-a brief, noninvasive, safe and inexpensive test covered by Medicare-to determine their risk of fracture and get treatment to lessen the risk.

For men, the task force said current evidence was insufficient to recommend screening for osteoporosis. Yet although men get about half as many osteoporotic fractures as women, according to this article when a man breaks his hip because of osteoporosis, he is more likely than a woman similarly afflicted to be permanently disabled and twice as likely to die within a year.  As Dr. Robert A. Adler, an endocrinologist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond, Va., has written, it’s time to stop thinking of osteoporosis as just “a lady’s disease.”

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