{"title":"Morbidity associated with osteoporosis significant in older men","authors":"S. Grewal, A. Jawad","doi":"10.1002/tre.868","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"While osteoporosis is more common in women, older men are at greater risk of mortality in hospital from fracture; they also have more osteoporosis‐associated complications. Risk assessment, screening and treatment are therefore important for men as well as women.","PeriodicalId":42819,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Urology & Mens Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Trends in Urology & Mens Health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/tre.868","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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While osteoporosis is more common in women, older men are at greater risk of mortality in hospital from fracture; they also have more osteoporosis‐associated complications. Risk assessment, screening and treatment are therefore important for men as well as women.