Osteoporosis is known as the silent disease for good reason. People rarely show symptoms of the bone condition before a break or fracture happens.The word “osteoporosis” literally means porous bone because it causes the natural holes in your bones to get bigger, which makes your bones thinner and weaker and more likely to break.The risk for osteoporosis is especially high among people living with HIV. “There are a number of ways that having HIV contributes to changes in the bone,” said Anjali Sharma, M.D., M.S., a professor and researcher with a focus on HIV in women at the Albert Einstein Col...

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