Table 4.

Summary of studies on awareness of osteoporosis

Author	Study type and population	Country	Awareness level/heard of osteoporosis
Yeap et al.[12]	attendees of health-related public forums	Malasia	87.1%
Gemalmaz et al.[13]	768 women	Turkey	60.8%
Saw et al.[14]	1376 women	Singapur	58%
Xu J et al.[15]	9983	China	30.7%
Shawa et al.[16]	130 men	Chicago	77%
Alexandraki et al.[17]	99 women	Greek	96%
Gopinathan et al.[18]	A questionnaire based study in 100 postmenopausal women	India	Great lack of awareness was observed in postmenopausal Indian women.
Present study	2000 women	India	37.85%