14+ Bone Breaking Disease Babies US. Babies who suffer from brittle bone disease are especially prone to bone fractures during delivery. The disease is often referred to as osteogenesis imperfecta (oi), which means imperfectly formed bone.
Many times the disease is only discovered once a sufferer has actually fractured a bone.
Bone fractures, commonly known as broken bones, happen to millions of people across the country each year. The bones become so fragile that they break down under the body's own weight. This type of the disease happens when collagen isn't made correctly; Osteogenesis imperfecta (oi, brittle bone disease) is a disease in which bone forms abnormally.