You can break a vertebra in your 60s or your 70s or beyond. And a vertebral fracture, yes, many of them kind of don't get diagnosed, but often, they are painful, not all of them, when they occur ...

When osteoporosis has made your bones weak, the chances are higher that they’ll crack or break, even the bones of your spine. These spine fractures, also called vertebral compression fractures ...

Most participants were of European ancestry, and 11% to 17.6% of women in each treatment group had a nonvertebral fracture after the age of 45. Change in bone mineral density at the lumbar spine ...

Overview A compression fracture of the back occurs when the bones of your spine (vertebrae) collapse. This can lead to poor posture, pain, loss of height, and a variety of other symptoms.

Women with postmenopausal osteoporosis who received the monoclonal antibody romosozumab were less likely to sustain a vertebral fracture during 12 months of treatment compared with women who ...

Lumbar Compression Fracture: (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI of the lumbar spine; (Right) T2-weighted MRI of the lumbar spine. Note the compression fracture of the L2 vertebral body. Vertebral ...

However, within 2 years of the incident fracture, 38% of patients developed another osteoporosis fracture — most frequently a vertebral fracture (74%) and less often a hip or femur fracture (14%).

Vertebral compression fractures are a significant morbidity and mortality related outcome of both primary and secondary osteoporosis. [1, 2, 3] Approximately 10 million Americans older than 50 ...

In those women receiving romosozumab, all clinical vertebral fractures occurred in the first two months of treatment; overall, the risk of a vertebral fracture was more than five times greater in ...