Prevalence of osteoporosis and incidence of hip fracture in women - secular trends over 30 years
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2010 Background The number of hip fractures during recent decades has been reported to be increasing, partly because of an increasing proportion of elderly women in the society.
Sernbo Ingemar +6 more
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The Comparison of Effects of Alendronate and Calcitonin Treatment in Men With Osteoporosis
Türk Osteoporoz Dergisi, 2004 In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in research investigating the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of osteoporosis and fragility fractures in men.
Gülcan Gürer +2 more
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Bone and renal stone disease in patients operated for primary hyperparathyroidism in Pakistan: Is the pattern of disease different from the West? [PDF]
, 1999 Objective: To document the clinical presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) in a developing country and note differences from the West. Setting: A tertiary care teaching hospital.
Biyabani, Syed Raziuddin +1 more
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Relation Between Smoking and Bone Mineral Density
Türk Osteoporoz Dergisi, 2005 Studies examining the relation between the nicotine intake through cigarette smoking and Bone Mineral Density (BMD) are limited and contradictory. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between nicotine intake through smoking and BMD ...
Alper Başaran +3 more
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Research opportunities in bone demineralization, phase 3 [PDF]
Bone demineralization, calcium responses to weightlessness, endocrine responses to weightlessness, mechanisms of bone loss, biomedical research, pathogenesis, and endocrine effects are ...
Anderson, S. A., Cohn, S. H.
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Space medicine research publications: 1983-1984 [PDF]
A list of publications supported by the Space Medicine Program, Office of Space Science and Applications is given. Included are publications entered into the Life Sciences Bibliographic Database by The George Washington University as of October 1 ...
Pleasant, L. G., Solberg, J. L.
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Effects of hypodynamic simulations on the skeletal system of monkeys [PDF]
A research and development program was undertaken to evaluate the skeletal losses of subhuman primates in hypodynamic environments. The goals of the program are: (1) to uncover the mechanisms by which weightlessness affects the skeletal system; (2) to ...
Tremor, J. W., Young, D. R.
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Experiment K-6-27. Analysis of radiographs and biosamples from primate studies [PDF]
Serial high-contrast radiographs were obtained of both arms and the right leg of two flight and four control monkeys for the period L-60 to S+16. Longitudinal growth of the tibia, radius and ulna was linear over this period in the control monkeys. In the
Cann, C., Karolkov, V., Rakhmanov, A.
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[Dual photon absorptiometry in full-term newborns].
Revista medica de Chile, 1999 There is scanty information about bone mineral density in newborns. Normal values are needed to assess the effects of diseases and drugs used during the neonatal period.To assess bone mineral density in normal newborns.Total body bone mineral density was measured in 16 newborns with 39 +/- 1.2 weeks of gestational age, using a Norland dual photon ...
M E, Hübner +4 more
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Changes in mineral metabolism with immobilization/space flight [PDF]
Researchers are still unsure of the accuracy of previous bone density measurements of their significance following a period of weightlessness. Rapid technological advances in the measurement of bone density will enable us now to measure bone density ...
Gallagher, J. C.
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