Anthea Turner backs bone checks for woman after own diagnosis

TV star Anthea Turner has called for a nationwide NHS screening programme to help prevent more women from developing osteoporosis. The debilitating bone-thinning condition impacts nearly four million people in the UK, 80 per cent of them women.

Sufferers have a heightened risk of fractures, immobility and chronic pain – but with early diagnosis, care and advice they are avoidable.

Anthea, 64, is backing the Sunday Express Better Bones campaign, which has won a commitment from Conservative and Labour leaders to provide scans for all over-50s who suffer a fracture.

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