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SAN DIEGO – The World Health Organization’s widely used, Web-based fracture risk assessment tool, known as FRAX, seriously underestimates the risk of major osteoporotic and hip fractures in patients with diabetes, according to a large Canadian study. This finding indicates diabetes is a risk... »
Mortality Risk Is Surprisingly High After Hip Fracture
Mortality risk doubles during the year after hip fracture among women aged 65 years and older, then returns to baseline in many women. But this pattern doesn’t apply in older women, according to a report published online in Archives of Internal Medicine.
Mortality risk after sustaining a hip... » SAN DIEGO – Postmenopausal women who are being treated for low bone mineral density have nearly five- fold the response rate to bisphosphonate therapy if they maintain a serum vitamin D level of 33 ng/mL or higher than they do with a level below that threshold, according to a study reported at the... » Intervention After Hip Fracture Prevented Deaths, Dependence
Elderly people with hip fractures had less chance of dying, being admitted to a nursing home, and becoming dependent in activities of daily living if they went through a 12-month intensive plan that included strength training and... » Is vitamin D a neglected analgesic for chronic musculoskeletal pain? Dr. Suzan Abou-Raya, professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Alexandria in Egypt, thinks it could be and recommends that physicians consider supplementation for all pain patients.
Dr. Abou-Raya based her opinion on... »
Bisphosphonate Response Best With 33 ng/mL Vitamin D
Journal Highlights From the January Issue of JAMDA
Study Links Low Vitamin D to Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
SAN DIEGO – Postmenopausal women who are being treated for low bone mineral density have nearly five- fold the response rate to bisphosphonate therapy if they maintain a serum vitamin D level of 33 ng/mL or higher than they... »
Mortality Risk Is Surprisingly High After Hip Fracture
Mortality risk doubles during the year after hip fracture among women aged 65 years and older, then returns to baseline in many women. But this pattern doesn’t apply in older women, according to a report published online in... »
FRAX Tool Badly Underestimated Diabetics’ Fracture Risk in Study
SAN DIEGO – The World Health Organization’s widely used, Web-based fracture risk assessment tool, known as FRAX, seriously underestimates the risk of major osteoporotic and hip fractures in patients with diabetes, according... »
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