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Photo: Osteoporosis Australia<\/p><\/div>\n

Osteoporosis (means \u201cporous bone\u201d) is a disease which affects around\u00a01.2 million Australians. It happens when you lose too much bone, make too little bone or both. As a result, your bones become weak and may break from a minor fall or, in serious cases, even from simple actions, like sneezing or bumping into furniture. Osteoporosis is a \u2018silent disease\u2019 because you can\u2019t feel your bones getting weaker and it usually has no symptoms until a fracture occurs.<\/p>\n

Broken bones due to osteoporosis are most likely to occur in the hip, spine and wrist, but other bones can break too. When osteoporosis causes the bones of the spine, called vertebrae, to break or collapse, it affects your posture and causes you to become stooped or hunched.<\/p>\n

There are controllable and uncontrollable factors\u00a0that put you at risk for developing osteoporosis.<\/p>\n

Uncontrollable Risk Factors<\/span><\/p>\n