What percent or how many people in brazil are affected by osteoporosis?

and/or in south africa?

please site sources! (no 'i remember from past' stuff)

Answers:
Brazil: 10 million people, approximately one person in every 17, has osteoporosis (152). The lifetime prevalence of fractures has been found to be 37.5% among men and 21% among women with proportions among white, mixed and black subjects at about 29%, 31% and 22%, respectively (200).
http://www.iofbonehealth.org/facts-and-s...

didn't find anything on South Africa Sorry!


17%

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