The word “osteoporosis” literally means porous bone, indicating that the bone density is low and the bones are thin. But bone does not fracture due to thinness alone. In the early 1990s, a consensus meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) defined osteoporosis as:

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Definition of Osteoporosis

  • Reiner Bartl,
  • Christoph Bartl

摘要

The word “osteoporosis” literally means porous bone, indicating that the bone density is low and the bones are thin. But bone does not fracture due to thinness alone. In the early 1990s, a consensus meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) defined osteoporosis as: