/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3840/all en /newsroom/channels/news/new-genetics-findings-unravel-key-components-fracture-risk-osteoporosis-289107 <p>The largest study ever to investigate the genetics of osteoporosis and fracture risk determined that only two examined factors – bone mineral density (BMD) and muscle strength – play a potentially causal role in the risk of suffering osteoporotic fracture, a major health problem affecting more than 9 million people worldwide very year. Other clinical risk factors like vitamin D levels and calcium intake, historically considered to be crucial mediators of fracture, were not found to directly predispose people in the general population to fracture. This research was published in the BMJ.</p> Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:42:36 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 78585 at /newsroom