title: [Weeks of pain, vertebral body fractures during sleep, invalidism. Save your osteoporosis patients from this fate].
abstract: In terms of their clinical impact, bone fractures as late sequelae of osteoporosis are still largely ignored in Germany. Up to 80-90% of patients with treatment-requiring osteoporosis are not receiving specific treatment. The consequences for the patient are enormous: weeks of severe pain, subsequent fractures that occur for ever more banal reasons, increasing restriction of daily activities, invalidism and an increasing need for nursing care. All this despite the availability of powerful medications. In concert with an appropriate early diagnosis, not only could the majority of patients be spared such a fate, but also the costs incurred as a direct consequence of such fractures could be drastically lowered.
authors.affiliation: Institut für klinische Osteologie Gustav Pommer, Klinik DER FURSTENHOF, Bad Pyrmont.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Minne
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pollähne
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pfeifer
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Begerow
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hinz
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000367:Age Factors; D019386:Alendronate / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012968:Etidronic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D020849:Raloxifene Hydrochloride / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000068296:Risedronic Acid; D012737:Sex Factors; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D020849:Raloxifene Hydrochloride; D000068296:Risedronic Acid; D012968:Etidronic Acid; D019386:Alendronate