PTH level but not 25 (OH) vitam ...
Summary We assessed the impact of calciotropic hormones on bone loss in 195 elderly subjects. After a median follow up of 4 years, parathyroid hormo ...
Calcitonin for treating acute a ...
Vertebral collapse is a common fracture associated with osteoporosis. Subsequent pain may be severe and often requires medications and bed rest. Sev ...
Association between incident an ...
Summary Vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) with densitometric devices uses less radiation than spinal radiography. We assessed risk of new vertebra ...
Effect of monthly ibandronate o ...
Summary Hip structural analysis (HSA) performed in a subset of participants from the STudy Researching Osteoporosis iN Guys (STRONG) demonstrated th ...
Bone health in healthy Indian p ...
Summary One thousand six hundred healthy subjects aged more than 50 years, residing in Delhi, were evaluated for bone mineral metabolic parameters. ...
Advancing maternal age is assoc ...
Summary Advancing maternal age has been related to increased risk of fetal death and morbidity, as well as higher fracture risk during childhood, in ...
High fracture probability with ...
Summary Most patients designated as high risk of fracture using fracture risk assessment tool (FRAXR) with femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) ( ...
An in vivo comparison of hip st ...
Summary In a population of elderly women, bone crosssectional area (CSA), cross-sectional moment of inertia (CSMI), section modulus (Z), femoral nec ...
‘Sink or swim’: an evaluation o ...
Summary High bone mineral density on routine dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) may indicate an underlying skeletal dysplasia. Two hundred fifty ...
A population-based analysis of ...
Summary The post-fracture care gap has not narrowed in recent years. Following an initial improvement, rates of medication initiation have actually ...
Relationships between serum vit ...
Summary Among 463 community dwellers aged 70.90 years, those with vitamin D insufficiency showed reduced neuromuscular function, balance control and ...
Discriminative value of FRAX fo ...
Summary We followed 2,266 postmenopausal Chinese women for 4.5 years to determine which model best predicts osteoporotic fracture. A model that cont ...
Teriparatide increases the matu ...
Summary This study shows that teriparatide promotes the circulating osteoblast (OB) precursor degree of maturation in patients affected by postmenop ...
Epigenetic influences in the de ...
Osteoporosis is a major public health problem due to consequent fragility fractures; data from the UK suggest that up to 50% of women and 20% men ag ...
Osteoid osteoma is an osteocalc ...
Osteocalcin is a hormone secreted by osteoblasts, which regulates energy metabolism by increasing â-cell proliferation, insulin secretion, insulin s ...
Risedronate in adults with oste ...
Summary Bisphosphonates can increase bone mineral density (BMD) in children with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). In this study of adults with OI type ...
Prospective comparison of the t ...
Summary Most post-vertebroplasty new-onset adjacent vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) occur within 2– 3 months, and antiresorptive agents do no ...
The effect of exercise on pQCT ...
Summary Inconsistent study findings of exercise on areal bone density highlight the need to include parameters of bone geometry and volumetric bone ...
The effect of prior bisphosphon ...
Summary Many osteoporotic women prescribed strontium ranelate have previously received bisphosphonates. Prior bisphosphonate use blunted the spinal ...
Prevalence of vertebral fractur ...
Summary Vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) is a convenient tool for the diagnosis of vertebral fracture in RA. Optimal control of inflammation may ...
Site-specific differences in bo ...
Summary We examined ethnic differences in bone mineral density (BMD) and the contribution of body composition, lifestyle and socioeconomic factors i ...
Association of spinal curve def ...
Summary The difference in the shape of sagittal spinal curvature and distribution of vertebral fractures in women of comparable age with osteoporosi ...
Predictors of bone loss in chil ...
Summary Twenty-nine children with malignancies and age, gender-matched controls were prospectively studied over 14 months. Patients had higher parat ...
Predictive values of calcaneal ...
Summary Calcaneal QUS is comparable to DXA in predicting non-vertebral fractures in older Chinese men. Introduction The predictive values of calcane ...
Ankle fractures do not predict ...
Summary It is not clear whether ankle fractures predict future osteoporotic fractures in women, and whether diabetes influences this relationship. W ...