Postmenopausal Women At Greater Risk For Subsequent Bone Fractures by Karishma Abhishek on May 5, 2021 at 11:57 PM Fractures in the arm, wrist, leg, and other parts of the body should also set off alarm bells for increasing the risk for subsequent bone breaks in the current guidelines for managing osteoporosis apart from specifically calling out hip or spine fractures as per the University Of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences (UCLA) -led study, published in the peer-reviewed journal EClinicalMedicine. "A fracture, no matter the location, indicates a general tendency to break a bone in the future at a different location. Current clinical guidelines have only been emphasizing hip and spine fractures, but our findings challenge that viewpoint. By not paying attention to which types of fractures increase the risk of future fractures, we are missing the opportunity to identify people at increased risk of future fracture and counsel them regarding risk reduction. Postmenopausal women and their physicians may not have been aware that even a knee fracture, for example, is associated with increased risk of future fractures at other locations of the body," says Dr. Carolyn Crandall, the study's lead author and a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.