Overview
- The International Osteoporosis Foundation reports up to 37 million fragility fractures a year worldwide, with an estimated 500 million people living undiagnosed.
- In Mexico, about one in three women and one in five men over 50 are affected today, with projections indicating 37% of those over 50 could have osteoporosis by 2050.
- Mexico’s latest briefing cites roughly 18,000 hip fractures a year nationwide, about 70% in women, with a 20% excess mortality in the first year after a hip fracture.
- Guidance highlighted calls for bone densitometry screening—typically women from 50 and men from 70—with follow-up every two years to identify risk and guide care.
- Coverage points to major treatment gaps in Latin America and promotes Fracture Liaison Services, alongside effective newer therapies such as RANK‑L inhibitors and sclerostin inhibitors that have shown substantial fracture risk reductions.