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Osteoporosis. Why does care continue to deteriorate in France?

If only one in six or seven people after a heart attack were treated to prevent a recurrence, we would cry. However, this is what happens in silent osteoporosis, while this pathology, which makes the bone porous and fragile, is not insignificant; the mortality rate in the year following a hip fracture is 23.9% (15% for a heart attack). Osteoporosis is also very expensive. According to the International Osteoporosis Federation, 3,991,000 French people had osteoporosis in 2019. The condition is responsible for 484,000 fractures per year, or 55 per hour, at a cost of €5 billion in 2019.alert Pr: Thomas Funk-Brentano, rheumatologist at Lariboisière Hospital in Paris (AP-HP-Université Paris Cité). This places France in eighth place among the European countries where osteoporosis fractures are the most expensive. And their number will still increase by 26% by 2034 because of the delay undertaken by France.

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Source: Le Figaro

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