Abstract
The word ``osteoporosis'' literally means porous bone, indicating that the bone density is low and the bones are thin. But bone does not fracture due to thinness alone. In the early 1990s, a consensus meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) defined osteoporosis as:
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Bartl, R., & Bartl, C. (2017). Definition of Osteoporosis. In Bone Disorders (pp. 109–110). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29182-6_17
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