Where now with NICE?
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 ...
Biomaterials and interface with ...
In this paper, some examples from the literature or from my own experience will be given to illustrate the influence of surface topography and surfa ...
Bone regeneration and limb leng ...
Regeneration of bone in the presence of stable fixation and the maintenance of the osteogenic tissue (marrow, endosteum, nutrient artery, and perios ...
Biomechanics and tissue enginee ...
Development of artificial scaffold for musculoskeletal applications, especially in load-bearing situations, requires the consideration of biomechani ...
Cell and gene therapy for bone ...
Improving bone repair remains an important and challenging issue. Therapeutic approaches to amplify osteogenic cell pool or function include cell an ...
Strategies for improving the ef ...
Bioengineered bone scaffolds are intended for use in large bone defects. Successful bone constructs should stimulate and support both the onset and ...
Effects of the vertical project ...
Objectives To investigate the effects of vertical projection angle alterations in intraoral radiography on the detection of furcation defects in the ...
A new method for evaluating per ...
Objectives To evaluate four digital intraoral radiographic systems using perceptibility curves (PCs) in a grayscale domain and to clarify the useful ...
Clinical characteristics of non ...
Objectives To investigate the frequency, prevalence, distribution, sex differences and characteristics of supernumerary teeth in a referred non-synd ...
Quantitative analysis of metall ...
Objectives To quantitatively compare the streak artifacts produced by dental metals in a cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) device and a multi-det ...