osteopenia at Her Active Life

Lead Stories: August 29, 2008

Having a Mother with Osteoporosis can Lead to Increased Risk for Spinal Fracture

Posted May 17, 2008 at 03:00 PM by Alexandra M. Haller

Section: Her Fitness, Her Health, Injury & Rehab

(ARA) - Of the 10 million Americans with osteoporosis, 80 percent are women, and having a mother with osteoporosis puts a daughter particularly at risk for fractures.

Priscilla Turner, 67, of Memphis, Tenn., knows this risk all too well. Her 90-year-old…

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