In 1990, the proportion of hip fractures by 1.7 million estimated at the level of the world and by 2050 will increase to 6.3 million. In 1990 was half of these fractures in North America and northern Europe.
According to estimates in the United States alone, the Osteoporosis affects more than 25 million people. As a result of their illness, the 250,000 of these people may suffer a broken hip, and 240,000 suffer a broken wrist, and 500,000 are injured fractured spine during one year. With the addition of other fractures less common, the 1.3 million fractures in the bones caused by osteoporosis in one country in one year.
And hip fractures caused by osteoporosis is not only painful, but can cause severe disability is very basic activities in normal life. The approximately 80 per cent of people with hip fracture become unable to walk after six months. More seriously, the up to 20 per cent of people die within one year after being exposed to hip fracture. In addition to this, the numerous fractures in the wrist and hip due to osteoporosis each year, leading to pain and untold suffering, and severely limits the activities of injured victims.
While it is possible to estimate the number of people who have broken bones as a result of osteoporosis, it is very difficult to estimate the number of people infected actually osteoporosis, but they did not know that yet. Vhat that the disease is usually painless, many of these people do not have the slightest idea of contracting osteoporosis even subjected to break. Experts say that about 25 per cent of women over the age of fifty are already living with osteoporosis and about half of all white women above this age are at risk of osteoporosis.
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