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To the Editor: The article by Riggs and Melton on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis (Aug. 27 issue)¹ is likely to become a much cited reference. Therefore, the error in the legend for their Figure 2 is important. Figure 2 is said to show scanning electron micrographs of cancellous bone from a normal young woman and a postmenopausal woman with osteoporosis. These micrographs, reprinted from an article by Dempster et al.,² actually show bone from a normal man and a 47-year-old woman with osteoporosis whose reproductive status was not described.

The authors did not mention the potential role of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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