New guidelines urging doctors to look for factors that put older men at risk for osteoporosis have just been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Once thought to be primarily a woman's issue, this bone-thinning disease is thought to strike about six out of 100 men by the age of 65. Screening for men that age and older is now recommended.
Based on the results of evidence from more than 200 scientific studies, Amir Qaseem, a senior medical associate at the American College of Physicians and his colleagues, developed the guidelines.
Reported in the Annalsof Internal Medicine, May 6, 2008.