“We started BDI to address a critical gap in healthcare. My patients are generally 50 years old and up. This age group today is just over 1/3 of all Americans and growing with our aging population. We found a shocking high number of this middle age+ population have undiagnosed osteoporosis or pre-osteoporosis (osteopenia). Unfortunately these findings are frequently ‘too late’ – only after an often devastating osteoporotic hip or other bone fracture. Osteoporosis is the main cause of hip and vertebral fractures, and is a “silent disease”: it usually is asymptomatic until a fracture occurs. Women have more osteoporotic fractures than heart attacks, strokes and breast cancer combined.
