Where now with NICE?
Partial adherence: a new perspe ...
Summary Partial adherence in osteoporosis increases the risk for fragility fracture and has considerable impact on cost-effectiveness. This review h ...
Bone texture analysis of human ...
Summary We measured bone texture parameters of excised human femurs with a new device (BMA™).We also measured bone mineral density by DXA and invest ...
Bone lengthening (distraction o ...
Distraction osteogenesis (DO) is a surgical technique widely used in orthopedic surgery for the treatment of various pathological conditions such as ...
Bone repair in osteoporotic bon ...
Although osteoporosis has been the subject of a considerable number of publications in recent years, very few studies have investigated the effects ...
Bone fracture and bone fracture ...
Fracture healing is a multistage repair process that involves complex, well-orchestrated steps initiated in response to tissue injury. The early upr ...
Macroscopic and microscopic pro ...
The growth of each type of callus (cortical, medullary and periosteal) depends on the mechanical condition of fracture fixation (elastic fixation an ...
Zoledronic acid results in bett ...
Summary This study evaluated the benefits of ZOL versus placebo on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among patients from HORIZON–RFT. At month ...
A meta-analysis of the effect o ...
Summary The aim of the present study was to determine the efficacy of strontium ranelate as a function of baseline fracture risk. Treatment with str ...
Age trends for hip geometry in ...
Summary Hip dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) images were used to calculate hip bone mineral density (BMD) and hip geometry parameters of 18,50 ...
Guidance for the adjustment of ...
Summary We examined the effect of glucocorticoid dose on FRAX® derived fracture probabilities in a UK setting. A relatively simple adjustment of con ...
Vitamin D in organ transplantat ...
Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among patients with end-stage organ failure awaiting transplant. Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) levels in ...
Management of osteoporosis in f ...
Summary Adherence to osteoporosis treatment is not satisfactory. Our study evaluated persistence and compliance with these treatments prescribed spe ...
Fracture liaison services for t ...
Summary The cost-effectiveness of Fracture Liaison Services (FLSs) for prevention of secondary fracture in osteoporosis patients in the United Kingd ...
Present at the beginning: a per ...
The ability of parathyroid glandular extracts to stimulate bone acquisition in rodents was established in the 1920s, but interest in this action lay ...
Systematic review on interventi ...
This study aims to determine osteoporosis (OP) investigation and treatment within post-fracture initiatives conducted in fracture clinics and other ...
High incidence of vertebral and ...
Summary A 5-year follow-up study was performed in female RA patients with established disease looking at vertebral fractures, scored on spinal X-ray ...
Coordinator-based systems for s ...
The underlying causes of incident fractures— bone fragility and the tendency to fall—remain underdiagnosed and under-treated. This care gap in secon ...
Cardiovascular effects of calci ...
Trials in normal older women and in patients with renal impairment suggest that calcium supplements increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. To ...
Where now with NICE?
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the agency in the UK, charged with the task of appraising Novel Health Technologies. Since i ...
Interpretation and use of FRAX ...
Summary The introduction of the WHO FRAX® algorithms has facilitated the assessment of fracture risk on the basis of fracture probability. Its use i ...
A review of patient-centred pos ...
The purpose of this literature review is to determine whether and to what extent current post-fracture osteoporosis interventions utilize theories o ...
Breaking the fragility fracture ...
Fracture begets fracture. This phenomenon has been wellcharacterised in many prospective studies and summarised by meta-analyses [1, 2]; a prior fra ...
Potential negative cardiovascul ...
Calcium supplements have been used for decades in the prevention and, as an adjuvant, for treatment of osteoporosis because low calcium intakes are ...
Secular trends in the incidence ...
Osteoporosis constitutes a major public health problem through its association with age-related fractures, most notably those of the proximal femur. ...
Evaluation of bone scaffolds by ...
This paper reviews the possibilities offered by X-ray micro-CT in bone tissue engineering. This technique provides a fast, nondestructive, and 3D qu ...