OBJECTIVE To investigate rates and predictors of change in bone mineral density (BMD) in a cohort of aging men with or at risk for HIV infection. DESIGN A prospective cohort study among 230 HIV-infected and 159 HIV-uninfected men aged at least 49 years. METHODS Longitudinal analyses of annual change in BMD at the femoral neck, total hip, and lumbar spine. RESULTS At baseline, 46% of men h...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to examine the associations between severe osteopenia and osteoporosis and/or sarcopenia on frailty status, a major geriatric syndrome in community-dwelling older women. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. SETTING Women's Health and Aging Studies II (WHAS-II), Baltimore, Maryland. PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS The analytic sample for this study included ...

CONTEXT Sleep deprivation has detrimental metabolic consequences. Osteopenia and sarcopenia usually occur together and increase risk of fractures and disease. Results from studies linking sleep parameters to osteopenia or sarcopenia are scarce and inconsistent. OBJECTIVE To examine the associations of sleep parameters with osteopenia and sarcopenia, considering the influence of sex and menopa...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the efficacy of wide-field digital retinal imaging for retinopathy of prematurity screening. DESIGN Retrospective study in a quaternary public neonatal intensive care unit. PARTICIPANTS A total of 108 premature infants screened for retinopathy of prematurity. METHODS Retrospective chart and photo review were performed on participants screened by both serial wide-fie...

Introduction The main role of prolactin is associated mainly with lactogenesis but additionally it participates in several endocrinological and metabolic processes. level may be increased some antipsychotics such as risperidone, paliperidone, amisulpride increasing the risk Bone Mineral Mass (BMM) decrease leading to osteopenia osteoporosis. Objectives To determine loss BMM antipsychotic-relate...

To investigate the hypothesis that survivors of pediatric solid cancer have low bone mineral density, a cross-sectional study was done of subjects who had received treatment for pediatric solid tumors before 16 years of age and were less than 40 years old at follow-up. Excluded were subjects treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia or those who had received cranial irradiation, total body radia...

UNLABELLED Bone disease in cystic fibrosis (CF) has become a topic of widespread interest and impact in the CF community. Recently, some biochemical markers have been proposed to provide information about the dynamics of bone turnover. Only limited information is available for young patients. Imbalance between bone formation and degradation in CF especially in puberty has become an important is...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Children with Crohn disease are at increased risk for osteopenia and osteoporosis. Early development of osteopenia can increase the lifetime risk for fractures and may be amenable to early intervention. The gold standard for measuring bone mineral density (BMD) and fracture risk is dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), but this involves some radiation and specialized programs for...

BACKGROUND Algorithms for bone mineral density (BMD) management in HIV-infected patients are lacking. Our objective was to assess how often a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan should be performed by assessing time of progression to osteopenia/osteoporosis. METHODS All DXA scans performed between 2000 and 2009 from HIV-infected patients with at least two DXA were included. Time to an...