Affects everywhere: Osteoporosis is loss of skeletal bone. Although we typically measure changes in the spine, hip, and sometimes wrist, it is a process that effects every bone in the body. There are two major types of bone: trabecular (bone on the inside) and cortical (bone on the outside). The spine has mostly trabecular bone, the hip has both, and the wrist mostly cortical.
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