«Dear Editor,
We appreciated the recent letter to the editor by Barcelos et al addressing the costs of hip fractures (HF) in postmenopausal women in Portugal. The authors rightly highlight HF as a public health concern due to their high incidence, costs, and morbimortality. We fully support their emphasis on prevention and the proposed indicators for primary care use.»

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