Osteoporosis maintains a special position in today's medicine, regarding both its growing
incidence and its clinical and social consequences-fractures, leading to the loss of self-
dependence, disabilities and higher mortality rates. It was thought for many years that
osteoporosis affected mainly women after menopause. At present, it is known that the
problem concerns men, as well. In the present review, similarities and differences between
osteoporosis in either sex are discussed, concentrating on epidemiological and …