Why did you decide to look at the disease osteoporosis and not just broken bones ?

Question: Why did you decide to look at the disease osteoporosis and not just broken bones ?
- Keywords:
  broken,
  disease,
  osteoporosis
Asked by 534arth35 to Sophie on 13 Mar 2017.
- Sophie Cox answered on 13 Mar 2017:
  
  Hi 534arth35,
  
  That’s a really good question.
  
  Well mostly because osteoporosis affects millions of people worldwide. It is quite common in older people in the UK and other countries. This disease also has the potential to make patients more at risk to things like breaking their bones.
  
  So while trying to fix things like fractures is important there are actually more fractures caused by osteoporosis than by things like sports injuries. Therefore if we can fix out how to stop osteoporosis then at the same time we help to reduce fracture numbers – cool hey?

Question: Why did you decide to look at the disease osteoporosis and not just broken bones ?