Robert Wermers, MD, and Monica Richey, MSN, ANP-bc, provide management updates and guidelines for clinicians who are treating patients with osteoporosis and osteopenia in their session at the Practical...
The American College of Physicians updated its set of guidelines on the pharmacologic treatment of primary osteoporosis based on current evidence and research.
In effort to improve the risk stratification of bone mass screening in women, the authors of a recent study examined how bone mineral density may be used to predict cardiovascular disease events such as...
To gain more insight into the mean femoral neck‐bone mineral density among older Asian women in the United States, researchers assessed measurements by ethnicity and age among Filipino, Chinese, and...
Although body mass index appears to be associated with benefits to bone microarchitecture, these benefits are not sustained after adjusting for body weight, according to the results of a recent study.
Patients with psoriatic arthritis have longer duration of disease and take higher doses of glucocorticoids than patients with rheumatic arthritis. What does new research show about the relative bone mineral...
It is unclear why patients with multiple sclerosis have reduced bone mineral density. Authors of a new study investigated the factors that may cause this decrease and found several independent contributors....
The authors compared baseline characteristics of persons with juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with and without lupus nephritis to identify clinical and laboratory predictors of lupus...
Researchers analyzed data from the FNIH Bone Quality Project to determine whether defining the surrogate threshold effect for bone mineral density change could identify a new regulatory pathway for...
Authors of a study presented at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2019 Annual Meeting evaluated whether zoledronic acid infusion can prevent increases in bone turnover and bone loss among...
