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    Osteoporosis, also known as "the brittle bone disease", affects over 10 million Americans over age 50 and is most common in white women of Northern European descent due to a genetic complex triggered by menopause. While it can affect all groups, African Americans have about a 60% lower fracture rate than white women. Over the next 50 years, 15% of white women living past 50 will develop osteoporosis.

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    Osteoporosis, also known as "the brittle bone disease", affects over 10 million Americans over age 50 and is most common in white women of Northern European descent due to a genetic complex triggered by menopause. While it can affect all groups, African Americans have about a 60% lower fracture rate than white women. Over the next 50 years, 15% of white women living past 50 will develop osteoporosis.

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    Osteoporosis, also known as "the brittle bone disease", affects over 10 million Americans over age 50 and is most common in white women of Northern European descent due to a genetic complex triggered by menopause. While it can affect all groups, African Americans have about a 60% lower fracture rate than white women. Over the next 50 years, 15% of white women living past 50 will develop osteoporosis.

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    How common is this condition?

    Osteoporosis affects many people from all ancestries for different reasons. Ten Million Americans over

    age of 50 years old have osteoporosis, otherwise known as, “The Brittle Bone” condition. Osteoporosis

    affects white women of Northern European ancestry more often than other humans due to an

    osteoporosis genetic complex that is triggered by estrogen deficiency occurring at menopause. Over the

    next 50 years, 15% white women who live beyond 50 years old will be affected with osteoporosis. White

    men who have the same genetic complex as white women can also be affected with Idiopathic

    osteoporosis but 60% of men have fewer fractures than white women. Osteoporosis can affect, African

    Americans, Asians, and Hispanics as well but their fracture rates are about 40% lower than white

    women, with African Americans at 60% lower fracture rates. [ CITATION Ost19 \l 1033 ]

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    Osteoporosis is a Common Condition. (2019). Retrieved from Osteoporosis Center of Atlanta:
    https://osteotest.com/osteoporosis-is-a-common-condition/

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