1. Osteoporosis Contents Key facts What is osteoporosis?
Prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia, people aged 50 and over, 2011–12
Rate of hospitalisation for osteoporosis, by age and sex, 2013–14
Hospitalisations following minimal trauma by fracture site, people aged 50 and over, 2013–14
Rate of minimal trauma hip fractures, people aged 50 and over, 2013–14
Trend in hospitalisation for minimal trauma hip fractures, people aged 50 and over, 2004–05 to 2013–14
Expenditure on osteoporosis, by age and sex, 2008–09
The following information and graphics are sourced from the Osteoporosis AIHW web snapshot.
Last updated April 2016

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3. Osteoporosis Osteoporosis by the numbers Nearly 1 in 10 5x 2.6x
Australians aged 50 and over (9.4%) have osteoporosis or osteopenia, based on self-reported data, approximately 652,500 people in 2011–12. 5x
more women compared with men aged 50 or over have osteoporosis or osteopenia—15.1% of women (542,500) and 3.3% of men (110,000).
2.6x
the rate of hospitalisation for minimal trauma fracture (likely to be associated with osteoporosis) for women aged 50 or over (1,157 per 100,000 people) compared with men (448 per 100,000).
Source: Osteoporosis AIHW web snapshot
Last updated April 2016

4. Osteoporosis What is osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a condition that causes bones to become thin, weak and fragile, such that even a minor bump or accident can cause a broken bone (known as a minimal trauma fracture).
Osteopenia is a condition when bone mineral density is lower than normal but not low enough to be classified as osteoporosis. Older people and post-menopausal women are at greater risk of having these conditions.
The data presented here are likely to underestimate the actual prevalence of these conditions because they have no overt symptoms.
The following graphics are from the AIHW web snapshot Osteoporosis
Information last updated in February 2016.
Source: Osteoporosis AIHW web snapshot
Last updated April 2016

5. Osteoporosis
Prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia, people aged 50 and over, 2011–12
Notes
Includes people who were told by a doctor or nurse that they had osteoporosis or osteopenia.
The thin horizontal bars attached to the top of each column are 95% confidence intervals. We can be 95% confident that the true value is within the interval depicted.
Source: Osteoporosis AIHW web snapshot
Last updated April 2016
Source: AIHW analysis of unpublished ABS Australian Health Survey, 2011–12 (National Health Survey Component).

6. Osteoporosis
Rate of hospitalisation for osteoporosis, by age and sex, 2013–14
Notes
For each sex, the age-specific rates are obtained by dividing the number of hospitalisations for each of the age groups by the population for that age group in December 2013.
Refers to the number of hospitalisations where osteoporosis was the principal diagnosis. Osteoporosis was classified according to ICD-10-AM, 8th edition (NCCC 2012) for 2013–14, and earlier editions used for the years 2004–05 to 2012–13. In all editions of the ICD–10–AM codes for osteoporosis were M80, M81 and M82.
Hospitalisations for which the care type was reported as Newborn (without qualified days), and records for Hospital boarders and Posthumous organ procurement have been excluded.
Source: Osteoporosis AIHW web snapshot
Last updated April 2016
Source: AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database.

7. Osteoporosis
Hospitalisations following minimal trauma by fracture site, people aged 50 and over, 2013–14
Notes
A hospitalisation for minimal trauma fracture was defined according to ICD–10–AM, 8th edition (NCCC 2012) as any hospitalisation of a person aged 50 and over with the principal diagnosis of a fracture (S02,S12,S22,S32,S42,S52,S62,S72,S82,S92,T02,T08,T10,T12) and a first reported external cause code indicating minor trauma (W00,W01,W03–W08,W18,W19,W22,W50,W51,W54.8).
Hospitalisations where the patient was transferred from another hospital were excluded. This provides a more accurate estimate of the number of fractures that required hospital treatment as an admitted patient.
Hospitalisations for which the care type was reported as Newborn (without qualified days), and records for Hospital boarders and Posthumous organ procurement have been excluded.
Source: Osteoporosis AIHW web snapshot
Last updated April 2016
Source: AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database.

8. Osteoporosis
Rate of minimal trauma hip fractures, people aged 50 and over, 2013–14
Notes
For each sex, the age-specific rates are obtained by dividing the number of hospitalisations for each of the age groups by the population for that age group in December 2013.
A hospitalisation for minimal trauma fracture was defined according to ICD–10–AM, 8th edition (NCCC 2012) as any hospitalisation of a person aged 50 and over with the principal diagnosis of hip fracture (S72.0,S72.1,S72.2) and a first reported external cause code indicating minor trauma (W00,W01,W03–W08,W18,W19,W22,W50,W51,W54.8).
Hospitalisations where the patient was transferred from another hospital were excluded. This provides a more accurate estimate of the number of fractures that required hospital treatment as an admitted patient.
Hospitalisations for which the care type was reported as Newborn (without qualified days), and records for Hospital boarders and Posthumous organ procurement have been excluded.
Source: Osteoporosis AIHW web snapshot
Last updated April 2016
Source: AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database.

9. Osteoporosis
Trend in hospitalisation for minimal trauma hip fractures, people aged 50 and over, 2004–05 to 2013–14
Notes
A hospitalisation for minimal trauma fracture was defined according to ICD–10–AM, 8th edition (NCCC 2012) for 2013–14, and the earlier editions were used for the years 2004–05 to 2012–13 as any hospitalisation of a person aged 50 and over with the principal diagnosis of hip fracture (S72.0,S72.1,S72.2) and a first reported external cause code indicating minor trauma (W00,W01,W03–W08,W18,W19,W22,W50,W51,W54.8).
Hospitalisations where the patient was transferred from another hospital were excluded. This provides a more accurate estimate of the number of fractures that required hospital treatment as an admitted patient.
Hospitalisations for which the care type was reported as Newborn (without qualified days), and records for Hospital boarders and Posthumous organ procurement have been excluded.
Source: Osteoporosis AIHW web snapshot
Last updated April 2016
Source: AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database.

10. Osteoporosis Expenditure on osteoporosis, by age and sex, 2008–09
Notes
2008–09 is the most recent year for which data are available in the AIHW’s Disease Expenditure Database.
Refers to direct expenditure allocated to all osteoporosis and includes expenditure on hospital admitted patient services, prescription pharmaceuticals and out-of-hospital medical expenses.
Hospital admitted patient services includes public and private acute hospitals and psychiatric hospitals. Includes medical services provided to private admitted patients in hospital.
Prescription pharmaceuticals includes all medicines for which a prescription is needed, including benefit-paid prescriptions, private prescriptions and under-copayment prescriptions. Excludes over-the-counter medicines.
These are likely to be underestimates because they exclude a range of costs incurred by people with osteoporosis. For example, privately purchased (including privately insured) health services like physiotherapy and over-the-counter medicines are not captured in the expenditure estimates.
Source: Osteoporosis AIHW web snapshot
Last updated April 2016
Source: AIHW Disease Expenditure Database..