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2020 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

American Association of Clinical EndocrinologyEndocrinology2020Official publication

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Official American Association of Clinical Endocrinology document (2020) on “2020 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis”. This guideline provides recommendations to reduce a person's risk of osteoporosis-related fractures and to evaluate, diagnose, and treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, based on fracture presence, assessment of fracture risk/probability, measurement of bone mineral density or bone mass, and a patient’s history, among other factors. An update of this guideline is currently in development. DOI: 10.4158/GL-2020-05.

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