Published in Nursing Home and Elder Business Week, May 1st, 2005
Study 1: Effective doses of ibandronate don't affect postmenopausal women's risk of cardiovascular disease by altering vascular calcification, according to a study from Denmark.
"Animal experiments revealed conflicting results as to the impact of bisphosphonate treatment on atherosclerosis and related vascular calcification. The effect of long-term treatment with clinical doses of bisphosphonates on aortic calcification (AC) in an 'at-risk' population of osteoporotic elderly women has not been assessed systematically," said Laszlo B. Tanko and colleagues,...
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