Boning up on New Osteoporosis Risk Guidelines (Centre Daily Times)
Osteoporosis — a skeletal disease that traditionally affects those age fifty and older — is a major public health problem. New guidelines released by the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) call for bone mineral density (BMD) testing for all men ages seventy and older and for younger men with risk factors for bone loss. BMD testing is also urged for women sixty-five and older, and …