From the 50 years the risk of osteoporotic fracture is 40% female and 13% in men.

Osteoporosis has become in recent decades in one of the diseases that are motivating increased interest in the field of preventive medicine, its significance for both clinical and socioeconomic status. The Organization has updated its Medical School Guide to Good Practice in osteoporosis, targeting primary care physicians, to provide diagnostic and therapeutic options, based on scientific evidence and an exclusively professional, and a simple schematic




Within the collection of Good Clinical Practice Guidelines that are edited Médecins Colegial just see the light of a new updated edition of the guide dedicated to osteoporosis.



As the president of the General Council of Medical Associations, Dr. Isacio Siguero, these guides help the doctor in the daily exercise of their profession, providing a precise and outline options for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on scientific evidence and an exclusively professional. "



Continuing education is an essential requirement in the medical profession and, as noted by Dr. Alfonso Moreno, president of the National Medical Specialties, "a way to maintain this high level of quality and meet the demands of Medicine Based on Evidence is the establishment of rules of action consistent with scientific knowledge. "



The authors of this guide have been doctors Cristina Carbonell (Barcelona), Juan Antonio Martín (Toledo) and Carmen Valdes (Madrid) with the collaboration of Professor Xavier Nogues (Barcelona) as a consultant and coordinating the work by Doctors Toquero Francisco and Juan José Rodríguez Sendín Organization, the Medical School.



Permanent current osteoporosis



Osteoporosis has gone from being regarded as a physiological process to a disease clearly associated with a series of disturbances of bone metabolism. It is currently defined as the progressive loss of bone mass and deterioration of bone quality, which leads to thinning of the structure of it, increasing its fragility.



Since osteoporotic fracture is the most obvious manifestation of the presence of osteoporosis, is attempting an early diagnosis of bone loss that occurs before the fracture. Densiometría bone is currently the most widely used technique for determining bone mass, antiresorptive treatments available for prevention and treatment drug makers as well as bone mass.



Fragility fractures cause a huge impact and the socio most important clinical consequence of osteoporosis. After the 50 years of age, the risk of osteoporotic fracture is 40% female and 13% in men. In the case of hip fracture, this leads to a mortality close to 30% in the first year and more than half of those who survive it have some degree of disability, more or less important.



Due to the importance, both clinical and socio-economic, osteoporosis has become in recent decades in one of the diseases that are motivating increased interest in the field of preventive medicine.



Since the Primary Health Care, and based on the principles that govern it, the more effective should be developed from primary prevention and this has some general measures applicable to all chronic diseases. These preventive activities of general type can represent a big change, because with only certain kinds of change in lifestyles, it plays a decisive role in the onset of the disease.