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The burden of osteoporosis in Latin America

, 2004
Osteoporosis causes considerable morbidity, mortality and resource utilization in industrialized nations. Its burden is relatively well known in United States and Canada, but poorly studied in the rest of America.
Morales-Torres, J., Gutierrez-Urena, S.   +1 more
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Loss of Reduction and Clavicle Fractures Commonly Occur in Patients Undergoing Acromioclavicular Joint Reconstruction and Female Sex Is Associated With Higher Fracture Risk

Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation, EarlyView.
Purpose To use a large, multi‐institutional database to characterize the outcomes and complication profile after primary acromioclavicular (AC) joint reconstruction and to evaluate potential sex‐related differences in outcomes and complications. Methods The TriNetX national database was queried for patients undergoing AC joint reconstruction between ...
Scott Fong, Arthur Saroyan, Rajiv S. Vasudevan, Michael S. Lee, Louise A. Atadja, Peter F. Monahan, Jay Moran, Kevin Girardi, Jacob D. Kodra, Jonathan Salandra, Andrew E. Jimenez   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cytokine Pathways Driving Diverse Tissue Pathologies in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex systemic disorder characterized primarily by articular inflammation and destruction with associated functional loss and reduced quality of life. RA is also associated with extra‐articular disease, such as that of the lung, with potentially devastating clinical consequences. The critical importance of comorbidities,
Aurelie Najm, Lyn D. Ferguson, Iain B. McInnes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk factors for osteoporosis in South Asian and Caucasian postmenopausal women [PDF]

, 2011
There is evidence to show that the risk of osteoporosis is greater for South Asian females compared to Caucasian females. This is due to differences in bone mineral density and other risk factors which contribute to this condition such as calcium and ...
Gifford, Heather
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Biologic and Targeted Synthetic Disease‐Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs Do Not Arrest Bone Loss in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Long‐Term Multicenter Observational Study

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Osteoporosis causes fractures that further increase the disease burden of rheumatoid arthritis (RA); however, osteoporosis treatment rates remain low. Although several studies have reported that biologic or targeted synthetic disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs) can prevent or improve osteoporosis in RA, our large‐scale, real ...
Takafumi Aritomi, Koshiro Sonomoto, Shingo Nakayamada, Hiroaki Tanaka, Atsushi Nagayasu, Satoshi Kubo, Ippei Miyagawa, Ayako Yamaguchi, Naoaki Ohkubo, Yasuyuki Todoroki, Yurie Satoh‐Kanda, Masanobu Ueno, Ryuichiro Kanda, Yuya Fujita, Masashi Funada, Hidenori Sakai, Satsuki Matsunaga, Hiroaki Tanaka, Masayuki Shinojima, Hiroki Kawamura, Kazuki Takahashi, Miyabi Ando, Kazuki Haru, Yusuke Miyazaki, Kentaro Hanami, Masao Nawata, Shunsuke Fukuyo, Keisuke Nakatsuka, Mikiko Tokunaga, Kazuyoshi Saito, Yoshiya Tanaka   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Male Osteoporosis in Our Population

, 2002
Male osteoporosis is encountered as an important problem in clinical medicine in the recent years. Our purpose was to evaluate bone mineral density (BMD) of vertebrae (L2-L4) and femur (neck and Wards) distributed according to age groups in males who ...
Seher Kocaoğlu, Z. Rezan Yorgancıoğlu, Belgin Karaoğlan, Esma Ceceli   +3 more
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ANK1 and EPB41 Variants and The Risk of Glucocorticoid‐Induced Osteonecrosis

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Steroid‐induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (SONFH) is a refractory skeletal disorder influenced by genetic and environmental factors. However, conclusive pathogenic genetic evidence remains elusive due to the limited exploration of rare damaging variants. In this study, we aimed to identify rare variants associated with SONFH.
Shengbao Chen, Xianmin Zhu, Zhongzhong Chen, Wei Chen, Hussam Alkaissi, Zeng Zhang, Yun Gao, Junhui Yin, Xiangtian Yu, Qiong Fu, Youshui Gao, Zhenzhong Zhu, Qianying Cai, Pengwei Zhang, Weibin Chen, Xin Zhao, Xiaojin Wu, Karel Pacak, Dongxu Jin, Chunde Bao, Zhengping Zhuang, Changqing Zhang   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Alendronate in Male Osteoporosis

, 2004
Osteoporosis in men is increasingly recognized as an important public health issue because of mortality and disability. Approximately 25-30% of all hip fractures occur in men and men are over 3 times more likely to die following a hip fracture than women.
Ebru Şahin, Ramazan Kızıl, Özlen Peker, Özlem El, Çiğdem Bircan, Sema Öncel, Özlem Şenocak, Elif Keskin Pehlivan, Burcu Adalmaz   +8 more
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A Pragmatic Trial of a Shared Decision‐Making Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence and Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: The HCQ‐SAFE Study

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) nonadherence in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) stemming from decision complexities can be improved with shared decision‐making (SDM) tools clarifying benefits and harms. This study aimed to develop and evaluate HCQ‐SAFE, a pictogram‐based SDM tool during SLE visits.
Caroline Packee, Jay J. Patel, Jessica Kent, Betty Chewning, Sancia Ferguson, Patricia Tellez‐Giron, David Gazeley, Christie M. Bartels, Shivani Garg   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parathyroid Hormone in Osteoporosis Treatment

, 2002
Parathyroid hormone stimulates bone formation, prevents or reverses bone loss, increases bone mass, bone strength and provides protection against fractures.
İ. Özkul
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