Nation's hip fracture rate could drop 25 percent with aggressive osteoporosis prevention

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Aggressively managing patients at risk for osteoporosis could reduce the hip fracture rate in the United States by 25 percent, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the November issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery .

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