Estimating the excess costs for patients with incident fractures, prevalent fractures, and nonfracture osteoporosis

Based on a population age 50+, significant excess costs relative to matched controls exist for patients with incident fractures that are similar in relative magnitude to other chronic diseases such as stroke or heart disease. Prevalent fractures also have significant excess costs that are similar in relative magnitude to asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.IntroductionCost of illness studies for osteoporosis that only include incident …