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 ...
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 ...