In vitro biomechanical evaluati ...
Purpose Relapse caused by clockwise (opening) rotation of the distal segment (dentate segment) in the sagittal plane is one of the postoperative com ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Osteoporosis in inflammatory jo ...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are two inflammatory joint diseases characterized by bone complications including osteopor ...
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 ...
A FRAX® model for the assessmen ...
Summary A country-specific FRAX® model was developed from the epidemiology of fracture and death in Belgium. Fracture probabilities were identified ...
Proximal hip geometry and hip f ...
Summary The association between proximal femoral geometry and hip fracture risk were investigated. The risk of intertrochanteric fractures increased ...
Supplementation with the antiox ...
Summary To date, no intervention studies have been published demonstrating the effect of the antioxidant lycopene on bone. Postmenopausal women supp ...
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 ...
Osteopontin regulates anabolic ...
Summary In this pilot study, we demonstrated that women with osteopontin (OPN) over-expression show less resistance to postmenopausal osteoporosis t ...
Reduction of whole PTH/intact P ...
Summary In cinacalcet treatment of hemodialysis (HD) patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT), not only intact parathyroid hormone (I-PTH) ...
Structural parameters of normal ...
Summary This study employed microCT to investigate whether image resolution affects bone structural parameters differently in healthy normal and ost ...
Clinical and demographic factor ...
Summary Medicare claims data were used to investigate associations between history of previous fractures, chronic conditions, and demographic charac ...
Changes in mandibular cortical ...
Summary Automated software was used to measure the mandibular cortical width in a large sample of dental radiographs. We determined that cortical th ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
Prevalence and costs of osteopo ...
Summary This study assesses prevalence of subsequent fractures during the year after incident osteoporosis-related non-vertebral fractures among pri ...
Polymorphisms of the peroxisome ...
Summary Stimulation of PPARƒء turns mesenchymal stem cells into adipocytes instead of osteoblasts. We investigated the effect of polymorphisms in th ...
Geographic trends in incidence ...
Summary A comprehensive review of literature was conducted to investigate variation in hip fracture incident rates around the world. The original cr ...
The 30-Year Outcome for Patient ...
This study determined the long-term outcome for patients after myocardial infarction (MI) due to Kawasaki disease (KD). Retrospective analysis was p ...
Rho-Kinase in Development and H ...
Rho-kinase (ROCK) belongs to the AGC (protein kinase A/protein kinase G/protein kinase C, PKA/PKG/ PKC) family of serine/threonine kinases and is a ...
Postprocedural Outcomes of Rura ...
The management of congenital heart disease (CHD) remains a significant challenge in developing regions. Since 2006, China California Heart Watch has ...
Atrioventricular Block in an In ...
A case of atrioventricular (AV) septal aneurysm presenting in late fetal life with AV block is reported. In the neonatal period, second-degree AV bl ...