Breaking bones in childhood more than doubles the odds of it happening again as an adult, study finds
- Written by: Kim Meredith-Jones, Senior Research Fellow, University of Otago
Shutterstock/CSKNBreaking a bone in childhood is not just a rite of passage. It could be a warning sign of future fracture risk and osteoporosis.
A history of prior fracture is one of the strongest predictors of future fractures, yet current guidelines used to determine osteoporosis risk ignore childhood fractures.
We investigated the history of...