International Osteoporosis Foundation
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English - July 05, 2020 01:18 - 9 minutes - 13.8 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHealth & Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Cyrus Cooper, president of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and professor of Musculoskeletal Science at the University of Oxford, discusses IOF's Capture the Fracture® initiative in partnership with Amgen, UCB, and the University of Oxford. This initiative aims to reduce osteoporosis-related hip and vertebral fractures by 25 percent by 2025, the partners aim to double the 390 existing Capture the Fracture® programs known as Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) by the end of 2022. Osteoporosis affects more than 200 million people worldwide with more than 8.9 million fractures reported in a single year.