Regional Migratory Osteoporosis

Transient Osteoporosis of Hip (Migratory)

From the Postgraduate Department of Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Jammu and *J&K Health ServicesIndia Corspondence to : Dr Preeti Wahi, Senior Resident, Postgraduate Department of G.Medicine, Govt. Medical College, JammuJ&K India Abstract Transient osteoporosis of hip (TOH) is a spontaneous resolving skeletal disorder characterized by sudden onset of severe pain which resolves within 6-12 mo...

Patchy Osteoporosis in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Regional forest fragmentation and the nesting success of migratory birds.

Forest fragmentation, the disruption in the continuity of forest habitat, is hypothesized to be a major cause of population decline for some species of forest birds because fragmentation reduces nesting (reproductive) success. Nest predation and parasitism by cowbirds increased with forest fragmentation in nine midwestern (United States) landscapes that varied from 6 to 95 percent forest cover ...

Regional osteoporosis screening, referral, and monitoring program in community pharmacies: findings from Project ImPACT: Osteoporosis.

OBJECTIVE (1) To identify patients at risk for osteoporosis through community pharmacy-based bone mineral density (BMD) screening, to refer at-risk patients to primary care and/or specialty practice physicians, and to follow-up with at-risk patients; (2) to treat and manage osteopenic and osteoporotic patients referred to the pharmacy for medication therapy management services; and (3) to test ...

Regional fat, weight and osteoporosis in elderly women in Egypt.

To test the hypothesis that regional fat and not total body weight has a protective effect on bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women, a cross-sectional study was conducted during the period from March 2008 to June 2009 on 303 healthy postmenopausal women presenting to the osteoporosis unit for screening purposes. BMD of the lumbar spine, L2-L4, and the neck of the left femur were me...