Osteoporosis

Comparison of three different osteoporosis risk assessment tools: ORAI (osteoporosis risk assessment instrument), SCORE (simple calculated osteoporosis risk estimation) and OST (osteoporosis self-assessment tool)

  Background :SCORE, OST and ORAI risk assessment tools could reduce the cost burden of BMD tests by selecting the high risk patients to osteoporosis. In this study we compared the ability of these risk assessment measures to assess probability of the osteoporosis among post-menopausal women.   Methods : 211 post-menopausal women aged 45-88 years enrolled into the study. All of the patients und...

Osteoporosis in Iran

Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis

Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis

[Disuse osteoporosis].

Reduction of mechanical stress on bone inhibits osteoblast-mediated bone formation and accelerates osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, and leads to what has been called disuse osteoporosis. Prolonged therapeutic bed rest, immobilization due to motor paralysis from injury of the central nervous system or peripheral nerves, application of cast to treat fractures, a common causes of disuse osteop...

Pediatric osteoporosis

Pediatric Osteoporosis (PO) is rarely due to bone primary genetic diseases, more frequently a consequence of chronic illness and/or medical treatments. Considering dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) the gold standard, the exact relationship between Bone Mineral Density (BMD) and risk of fracture in children is unknown. Furthermore, BMD measurements in children are affected by body size, since the ...

Geriatric osteoporosis.

EPIDEMIOLOGY 1,2,3 • 44 million adults in the US have abnormally low bone mass • 40% of all women and 25% of all men will experience a fragility fracture in their lifetime. • osteoporosis accounts for 800,000 vertebral compression fractures, 300,000 hip fractures and 250,000 wrist fractures annually. • The consequences of those fractures are significant: the mortality for hip fracture is 24% in...