The National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency (Director Han Kwang-hyeop, NECA) analyzed the drug effect in osteopenia patients and developed a fracture risk prediction model and published the results of the study on the 25th.

As aging rapidly progresses worldwide, the prevalence of osteopenia and osteoporosis is rapidly increasing. In particular, osteopenia is estimated to be about half of the current elderly population, and the social and economic burden of this is rapidly increasing as the frequency of hip fractures gradually increases. NECA conducted a study on the necessity of preventive treatment for fractures in osteopenia patients so that fracture risk factors can be analyzed and pr