Osteoporosis
Research from University of Maastricht Has Provided New Information about Osteoporosis
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 11th, 2011
2011 AUG 11 -- "Previously undetected contributors to secondary osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases (SECOB) are frequently found in patients with osteoporosis, but the prevalence in patients at the time they present with a clinical fracture is unknown. All consecutive patients with a recent clinical vertebral or nonvertebral fracture, who were able and willing to be investigated (n = 626:482 women, 144 men, age range 50-97 yr) had bone mineral density and laboratory investigations (serum calcium, inorganic phosphate, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, creatinine, intact PTH, TSH, free T-4, serum and urine protein electrophoresis, and in men also serum testosterone)," scientists in...
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