Researchers developed what is believed to be the first matched cohort study comparing the risk of fractures in patients with acute calcium pyrophosphate (CPP) crystal arthritis vs controls. The study was...
The American College of Physicians updated its set of guidelines on the pharmacologic treatment of primary osteoporosis based on current evidence and research.
The American College of Rheumatology provided a summary of its updated guidelines, which include newly approved medications and recommendations for treating glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.
The North American Menopause Society has updated its position statement on the management of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women after an extensive literature review.
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...
The researchers integrated data on diverse expression quantitative trait loci and splicing quantitative trait loci with powerful datasets from genome-wide association studies.
Because menopause and hormone changes are linked with osteoporosis and bone fracture, researchers sought to determine the impact of hysterectomy on the risk of osteoporosis or bone fracture.
There have been conflicting views about whether the prevalence of osteoporosis is increased among patients with osteoarthritis, so researchers evaluated the association. Their findings were released during...
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...
After analyzing 19 potential sociodemographic and medical risk factors among postmenopausal women, the researchers found several factors that place certain patients at higher risk for falls.
