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Hello, my name is
Robert Adler, and I'm
from the Veterans Hospital
in Richmond, Virginia.
I teach at Virginia Commonwealth
University where I'm
in the Department of Medicine
as well as Epidemiology
and Community Health.
My topic today is how long
to treat osteoporosis.
And I thank Professor Juliet
Compston for the opportunity
to discuss this most
challenging subject.
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Here are my disclosures
on the next slide.
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And on the next slide, the
topics that I will cover today.
First of all, I'm going to
talk about why this is such
an important subject because
fractures are really quite common.
And then I'll go over the
treatments that we have emphasizing
bisphosphonates because
they've been the mainstay
of our osteoporosis treatment.
I will review the few
long-term studies we have,
and then talk about the
importance of individualizing
assessment and treatment
in your patients.
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In the next slide, I show just how
common osteoporotic fractures are.
This is data from
the States, but it's
applicable to many other countries.
And then in a given year, a
woman has a much greater chance
of having an osteoporotic
fracture than developing
a new onset heart
disease or breast cancer.
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And even in men, as shown in the
next slide, osteoporotic fracture
is more common than many other
disorders that are of more
general concern, such as
prostate cancer or stroke.
