EMBARGOED: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2022 APCO Scientific Summit in Singapore Leading bone experts from the Asia Pacific will convene in Singapore tomorrow – December 10, 2022 – for the Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO) Scientific Summit, to further their vision of reducing the burden of osteoporosis and fragility fractures for 2023 and …
Last Thursday, October 20, 2022, members of the Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO) celebrated World Osteoporosis Day (WOD). This annual, global campaign, coordinated by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), aims to raise much needed awareness for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. The theme of this year’s WOD was ‘Step Up …
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In order to stem the tide of fragility fractures in the world’s fastest ageing, and linguistically diverse region, and to promote best practice osteoporosis care, the Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO) today announced the release of its novel, interactive, educational osteoporosis resource – the APCO Health Care Professional (HCP) Peer to Peer Educational Modules …
APCO Chairperson and Director of the Osteoporosis and Bone Metabolism Unit, Singapore General Hospital, Dr Manju Chandran, Singapore, was recently welcomed back as a special guest on Channel News Asia’s ‘Health Matters’ radio program by host, Daniel Martin, on May 31, 2022. During her interview, Dr Chandran reflected on the May 24, 2022 launch of …
Practical tool kit promoting quality improvement of osteoporosis care to avoid the dreaded consequence of fragility fractures that can cause pain, long-term disability, & loss of independence The Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO) has launched a Bone Health QI Tool Kit today (May 24, 2022), to address the major public health burden of osteoporosis …
The Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO) was recently invited to provide our unique perspective on how we are disrupting the status quo of osteoporosis management in the Asia Pacific (AP), by the prestigious Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, the flagship, peer-reviewed publication of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), and …
As an allied member of the Committee of National Societies (CNS) of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), APCO is proud to have been part of the recently concluded IOF-ESCEO-WCO – the world’s largest event in the field of osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, frailty, and sarcopenia. The congress, which on account of the pandemic, was held as a …
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The Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO) Virtual General Body Meeting and Congress was held on Saturday, February 19, 2022 between 2:30 – 7:00 pm SG time. Attended by APCO’s members representing 20 countries and regions in the Asia Pacific – from New Zealand in the south, to China in the north, and Pakistan in …
Reflections on APCO’s highlights and achievements for 2021 Throughout 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to weigh heavily on healthcare systems worldwide, creating a gamut of challenges that extended far beyond the impact of the virulent pathogen itself. Despite these challenges, our APCO members persevered and remained resilient, focusing on their commitment to improve osteoporosis …
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In a previous blog, we discussed the implication of communicating mortality risk to patients with a fracture. In this article, we put forward the new concept of “skeletal age” to quantify the impact of fracture on mortality. It is easy to determine the chronological age of an individual. The number of years that pass from …
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