Osteoporosis
New osteoporosis study findings reported from C.V. Caballerouribe and co-authors
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 31st, 2008
In this recent report published in the Jcr - Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, researchers in Barranquilla, Colombia conducted a study "To examine current practices for the diagnosis and therapy for glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) in patients under treatment with corticosteroids at outpatient clinics of rheumatologists in a Colombian Caribbean city. All patients noted to be using of glucocorticoids (GC) on an index consult from February to May 2004 were included in a descriptive cross sectional study."
"Criteria for inclusion of patients were to have had, at least, one previous visit to the service. We evaluated the study population for osteoporosis...
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