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The word “osteoporosis” literally means porous bone, indicating that the bone density is low and the bones are thin. But the bone does not fracture due to thinness alone. In the early 1990s, a consensus meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) defined osteoporosis.
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Bartl, R., Bartl, C. (2019). Definition of Osteoporosis. In: The Osteoporosis Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00731-7_12
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