Estimation of the lifetime risk ...
Summary In Canada in 2008, based on current rates of fracture and mortality, a woman or man at age 50 years will have a projected lifetime risk of f ...
Bisphosphonate prescribing, per ...
Summary We studied new users of oral bisphosphonates and found that less than half persisted with therapy for 2 years, and interruptions in use were ...
Renal function and nonvertebral ...
Summary To examine the association between renal function and fracture in multiethnic women, we studied postmenopausal women enrolled in the Women’s ...
Genetic influence on bone miner ...
Summary Bone mineral density (BMD), a representative marker of osteoporosis risk, is found to be highly heritable in this Korean study, which is ver ...
Human bone material characteriz ...
Summary The interrelation of calcium and phosphorus was evaluated as a function of bone material quality in femoral heads from male fragility fractu ...
Impact of bone turnover markers ...
Summary We examined how the use of bone turnover markers and educational information affects persistence of bisphosphonate use in osteoporotic patie ...
Differences in structural geome ...
Summary Structural geometric parameters at neck of the proximal femur were obtained using DXA-derived hip structural analysis (APEX 3) and quantitat ...
Severe postpartum osteoporosis ...
We present a 27-year-old woman with hypoparathyroidism following total thyroidectomy for papillary carcinoma, who presented postpartum during lactat ...
Effectiveness of interventions ...
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of primary care interventions to improve the detection and treatment of osteoporosis. Eight electronic ...
Associations of total osteocalc ...
Summary In older men, both lower and higher total osteocalcin levels predict increased all-cause mortality, with comparable associations for cardiov ...
Arzoxifene versus raloxifene: e ...
Summary Arzoxifene increased bone mineral density and decreased bone turnover to a significantly greater extent than raloxifene. The hot flush incid ...
Bone structure and turnover in ...
Summary We compared skeletal parameters in type 2 diabetic (T2DM) and non-diabetic postmenopausal women. Bone structure by dual energy x-ray absorpt ...
Validation of the adherence eva ...
Summary We developed and validated a specific 12-item questionnaire to evaluate adherence to oral antiresorptive medication by post-menopausal osteo ...
Undertreatment of osteoporosis ...
Summary In this population-based study of more than 2,600 elderly, people with dementia received less preventive treatment for osteoporosis compared ...
Validated risk rule using compu ...
Summary Absolute risk assessment is now the preferred approach to guide osteoporosis treatment decisions. Data collected passively during routine he ...
Bone health in multiple scleros ...
People who are disabled with multiple sclerosis (MS) may be at increased risk of osteoporosis. This review discusses issues relevant to bone health ...
Comparative trends in hospitali ...
Summary In Switzerland, the number, incidence, and cost of acute hospitalizations for major osteoporotic fractures (MOF) and major cardiovascular ev ...
Long-termtreatment with raloxif ...
Summary We determined whether suppression of sclerostin levels by estrogen treatment was mediated by anti-resorptive effect. Raloxifene, but not bis ...
Effects of paracetamol, non-ste ...
Summary Pain medication has been associated with fractures. We found higher weight in paracetamol and non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAID) u ...
A retrospective analysis of ext ...
Summary This study evaluated whether patients treated with bisphosphonates in the US Military Health System were more compliant with treatment given ...
The factor-of-risk biomechanica ...
Summary We examined the relation between a biomechanical measure, factor-of-risk, and hip fracture risk in 1,100 men and women from the Framingham S ...
Pattern of use of DXA scans in ...
Summary Osteoporosis in men is underdiagnosed. The use of dual-emission X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) was evaluated in almost 5,000 men aged 60–74 year ...
A study of relationships betwee ...
Summary Follow-up of a British national survey of older people found that in men, all-cause mortality was predicted by baseline plasma concentration ...
Semi-automatic determination of ...
Summary The vertebral endplates in lumbar radiographs were located by a semi-automatic annotation method using statistical shape models. Introducti ...
Genetic variants in the SOX6 ge ...
Summary Given the biological function of SOX6 and recent genome-wide association finding, we performed a finemapping association analyses to investi ...