We subscribe to the HONcode principles of the Health on the Net Foundation . But to believe that osteoporosis is only a woman's disease is to believe in a myth.
Osteoporosis strikes men too.
One of every two women will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in her lifetime. Five million men are currently dealing with osteoporosis. Many of the risk factors commonly associated with osteoporosis are often more likely to pertain to women than to men, which explains why men have a lower incidence of osteoporosis than women. But there are many risk factors that pertain to men as well as to women. Clearly, the risk factors for osteoporosis do not exclude men.