Argument: The World Health Organization predict that there will be 600,000 hip fractures in the US by year 2040.

Questions: Since a hip fracture severely reduces the quality of life, and one in four of the elderly who suffer a hip fracture are dead within one year of their operation, shouldn't there be more effort in informing, young women in particular, on how to prevent osteoporosis at an earlier age?

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