From age 50 the risk of osteoporotic fracture is 40% in women 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 importance both clinical and socio-economically. The College Medical Organization has updated its Guide to Best Practice in osteoporosis, targeting primary care physicians to provide diagnostic and treatment options based on scientific evidence and professional criteria alone, in a simple schematic




Within the collection of Good Clinical Practice Guidelines which is editing the Organization Medical College, has just seen the light a new updated edition of the guide to osteoporosis.



As the president of the General Council of Medical Colleges, Dr. Isacio Siguero, these guides can help the doctor in the daily exercise of their profession, providing the precise and schematic options for diagnostic and therapeutic approach based on scientific evidence and purely professional criteria.



Ongoing training is an essential requirement in the medical profession and, as noted by Dr. Alfonso Moreno, president of the National Board of Medical Specialties, a way of maintaining this high level of quality and meet the requirements based Medicine Evidence is to establish performance standards in line with scientific knowledge.



The authors of this guide are 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 Doctor Francisco Toquero and Juan Jose Rodriguez Sendín, College of Physicians.



Permanent current osteoporosis



Osteoporosis has gone from being regarded as a physiological process clearly related to a disease with a series of disorders of bone metabolism. It is currently defined as the progressive loss of bone mass and deteriorating bone quality, leading to thinning of its structure, increasing its fragility.



Since osteoporotic fracture is the most obvious manifestation of the existence of osteoporosis, try the early diagnosis of bone loss before fractures occur. Bone densitometry is currently the most widely used technique for determining bone mass, antiresorptive available treatment for the prevention and treatment as well as bone-forming drugs.



Fragility fractures cause a huge impact and are socio major clinical consequence of osteoporosis. After 50 years of age, the risk of osteoporotic fracture is 40% in women and 13% in men. In the case of hip fracture, this causes a mortality approaching 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 significance, 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 action must be developed from primary prevention and It has some general measures applicable to all chronic diseases. These preventive activities in general can make a huge difference, because you need only modify certain behaviors in lifestyles, it has a decisive bearing on the emergence of the disease.