A new guideline on the management of osteoporosis in men over 50 and post-menopausal women has been published by the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group (www.shef.ac.uk/NOGG), a group of organisations representing health professionals and patients, with funding from several pharmaceutical companies. nThe guideline recommends using the FRAX tool (www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX) to assess the 10-year fracture risk in individuals with risk factors to facilitate targeting DXA scans to measure bone mineral density. Patients who have already sustained a fragility fracture should be treated without risk assessment. Treatment recommendations are similar to those published in draft NICE guidance on primary and secondary prevention, selecting alendronate as the drug of first choice for most patients.
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