Here s how osteoporosis treatment got affected by COVID-19 pandemic ANI | Updated: Feb 10, 2021 10:45 IST
Bern [Switzerland], February 10 (ANI): A worldwide survey of medical care providers by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), and the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ESCEO) has uncovered uncommon impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on overall medical care conveyance for osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis is a chronic, age-related disease that is associated with life-changing fragility fractures. Approximately 740,000 people lose their lives following hip fractures every year.
The survey report is based on online questionnaires completed from April to June 2020 by 209 healthcare providers in 53 countries: 28% from Europe, 24% from North America, and 19%, 17%, and 12% from the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin
Resources and tools to support new and existing Post-Fracture Care Programs
An extensive online global hub of resources, the Resource Center now provides healthcare professionals, hospitals and clinics with valuable resources to help them set up new Post-Fracture Care Coordination Programs, or to improve their existing services. Practical insights and step-by-step guidance is provided in the form of webinars and related slide kits, information leaflets, audits and reports. The website will soon host dedicated tools to help support the business case for service implementation and to assist programs in tracking key performance indicators and facilitating the management of patient pathways.
Roger A. Fielding, Ph.D. is Associate Director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and serves as Director and Senior Scientist of the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia (NEPS) Laboratory. He is also Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. Dr. Fielding is an internationally known researcher who studies the underlying mechanisms contributing to the age-associated decline in skeletal muscle mass, the resultant impact on function, and the potential role of exercise, nutrition, physical activity and other therapies on attenuating this process. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers with over 8,000 citations and has conducted numerous cross sectional, longitudinal, and intervention studies examining the role of skeletal muscle powe
New policy guidance outlines the benefits of Post-Fracture Care Coordination Programs
By 2025 some 500 million people will be living with osteoporosis, a chronic disease which weakens bones and leaves older adults at risk of a fragility fracture - a broken bone which typically occurs after a low-trauma fall. As a result, an estimated 13.5 million fragility fractures will occur worldwide.
Fragility fractures affect older adults, and with the emergence of hyper-aging societies in which over 25% of the population is aged above 65 years, the rapidly increasing fracture incidence will pose a growing burden to health care systems all over the world. Hip fractures, the most life-threatening and costly of osteoporosis-related fractures, are expected to increase by 310% in men and 240% in women by 2050 compared to rates in 1990.
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February 1, 2021 - Nyon, Switzerland
By 2025 some 500 million people will be living with osteoporosis, a chronic disease which weakens bones and leaves older adults at risk of a fragility fracture - a broken bone which typically occurs after a low-trauma fall. As a result, an estimated 13.5 million fragility fractures will occur worldwide.
Fragility fractures affect older adults, and with the emergence of hyper-ageing societies in which over 25% of the population is aged above 65 years, the rapidly increasing fracture incidence will pose a growing burden to health care systems all over the world. Hip fractures, the most life-threatening and costly of osteoporosis-related fractures, are expected to i