Osteoporosis is a disease that causes the bones to become thin and brittle. Therefore, they can break easily. Alarming Facts Osteoporosis leads to about 250,000 hip fractures each year.
Osteoporosis is four times more common in women than in men.
One-third of women over age 50 will, at some point, have fractures of the spine. Bone is living, growing tissue. Your body constantly tears down and rebuilds bone, storing calcium. From birth until age 30, your body builds bone faster than it tears it down. This is when bones are the strongest.