[Osteoporosis: Diagnostics and Therapy According to the German Guidelines].

The S3 guideline on the diagnosis and therapy of osteoporosis has existed since 2003. This was last updated in 2014. The aim of the present article is to present the knowledge needed for the diagnosis and therapy in men aged 60 or more and in postmenopausal women. The contexts of the updated guideline 1 are presented, together with comments on recent literature that has appeared since the last version. Both abbreviated and long versions of the guideline are available in the Internet under "www.dv-osteologie.org". Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.