All men aged 85 years or older should be screened for osteoporosis, according to a study presented at the American Geriatrics Society 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting in Orlando, Fla. Men should be tested for osteoporosis as young as 65 years if they have certain fracture risk factors, Medscape details.
Here are four things to know.
1. The researchers assessed CMS and Veterans Administration data on about 2.5 million men 65 to 99 years of age with no fracture history.
2. Of the 183,943 men who had undergone screening for osteoporosis, 33,224 — 18 percent — were older than 80 years.
3. Fracture rates were 15 percent lower in the screened population than in the overall population. For men without fracture risk factors, screening becomes more effective than not screening at 85 years of age.
4. Men have a higher risk of suffering a major osteoporotic fracture than getting prostate cancer.
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