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Heart Failure Patients--™ Osteoporosis Often Undiagnosed, Untreated - Health News - redOrbit

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One in 10 heart failure patients had compression fractures in the spine that could have been detected by a chest X-ray, but few are receiving treatment to help prevent such fractures.

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