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Osteoporosis/Bone Disease: Archives

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Trends in Hip Fracture Incidence and Mortality — 1986–2005

Incidence peaked in 1995, and then declined; mortality was down overall.

Psoriatic Arthritis in Patients with Psoriasis: What Is the Likelihood?

Many useful lessons emerge from this prevalence study.

Women Lose Knee Cartilage Faster Than Men Do

MRIs show women lose three to four times more knee cartilage annually.

Power Over Pain: Gaining Control of Chronic Pain

Treatments aimed at helping you to manage pain by improving your physical functioning and your ability to control your thoughts, behaviors, and reactions

Topical Voltaren Gel for Hand Osteoarthritis

Diclofenac gel was better than placebo for relieving pain.

Possible New Option for Treating Osteoporosis

Both men who were receiving androgen-deprivation therapy and postmenopausal women gained bone density with denosumab.

Vitamin D Levels and Bone Loss in Older Men

In men older than 75, 25(OH)D levels lower than 20 ng/mL were associated with accelerated bone loss.

Slowing the Progression of Aortic Stenosis: An Intriguing Possibility

Findings from a small retrospective study suggest that medications for treating osteoporosis can benefit patients with aortic stenosis.

Oral Drug to Prevent Venous Thrombosis After Knee Replacement

As yet unapproved by the FDA, apixaban was associated with less bleeding than was enoxaparin.

A New Agent for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis?

Biannual subcutaneous denosumab injections prevented vertebral, nonvertebral, and hip fractures.

Osteoporosis and Fracture in Men with Prostate Cancer

Denosumab increased bone-mineral density and lowered fracture incidence in men receiving androgen-deprivation therapy for nonmetastatic disease.

Vertebroplasty Strikes Out

This procedure yielded no improvements in two randomized placebo-controlled trials.

Is Monitoring BMD Necessary in Patients Who Take Bisphosphonates?

Alendronate treatment increases bone density in most patients, so routine monitoring of BMD is not warranted.

Monitoring BMD After Starting Bisphosphonate Treatment

The authors recommend against routine early screening.

Cardiovascular Safety Data on Rosiglitazone Aren’t Entirely Reassuring

Although few significant differences were detected in a large cohort at 5 years, excess heart failure risk still is apparent.

Boning Up on Thiazolidinediones

Rosiglitazone was associated with excess fracture risk in women.

Reviews of Note

Depression after ACS; inflammatory markers; medical and prenatal issues with ECT; bone loss in anorexia nervosa patients; preventing PTSD; trajectories of brain development; and genetics of mental retardation

Oral Raloxifene, Transdermal Estradiol Similar at Preserving Bone Density

Postmenopausal users of these two drugs had similarly high rates of bone density preservation and few serious side effects.

Concomitant Management of Depression and Pain

An intensive, combined approach was more effective than usual care, but absolute response rates were still modest.

"Microdose" Transdermal Estradiol: As Effective as Raloxifene in Preventing Bone Loss?

Even very low doses of estrogen can help prevent bone loss.

Vitamin D and Health

Do we have enough? How do we get more? What systems are affected?

Bisphosphonates for Glucocorticoid Users: Yearly or Daily?

Yearly intravenous zoledronic acid was not inferior to daily oral risedronate.

The HORIZON Study: Bisphosphonates for Patients on Corticosteroids

Once-yearly infusion of a bisphosphonate may be more effective and more convenient than daily bisphosphonate for preventing and treating glucocorticortoid-induced osteroporosis.

Cheers! Drinking Alcohol Might Preserve Bone Density in Postmenopausal Women

Greater intake of alcoholic beverages, especially wine, correlated with higher bone density.

Vitamin D Levels in Elders

Most older people had low serum levels, and at least 25% of elders had frank vitamin D deficiency.

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