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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about osteoporosis and death from osteoporosis.
Meaning of osteoporosis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, osteoporosis:
             (a)          means a systemic bone disease characterised by low bone density resulting in a greater susceptibility to fracture (fragility fracture), where low bone mineral density is 2.5 standard deviations or more below the mean bone mineral density of young adult sex-matched controls (T score); or radiologically confirmed fragility fracture or loss of ≥20% of vertebral height due to fragility fractures; and the fragility fracture is not better explained by other types of bone pathology than osteoporosis; or anyone over 70 years with a low bone mineral density; or  people with low bone density taking glucocorticoids for at least 3 months; and

             (b)           excludes:
                 (i)            localised osteoporosis;
                 (ii)         Paget disease of bone;
                 (iii)       osteomalacia;
                 (iv)        osteonecrosis;
                 (v)          osteomyelitis;
                 (vi)        malignant or benign neoplasm of bone; and
                 (vii)     osteogenesis imperfecta.

            Note: low bone mineral density is defined in schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(3)          While osteoporosis attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes M80, M81 or M82, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of osteoporosis is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from osteoporosis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, osteoporosis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's osteoporosis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.