BACKGROUND To analyze the necessity of bone densitometry for patients long-term taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) over a long period of time, which is one of the risk factors of osteoporosis. METHODS We selected patients from 5 veterans hospitals who took SSRI for more than 2 months while taking bone densitometry on a regular basis. RESULTS Of the 85 patients from a tota...

Twenty eight term small for gestational age (SGA) infants and 18 term appropriate for gestational age (AGA) infants were studied prospectively to assess bone mineral density and cord serum zinc concentrations. Growth and nutritional status were evaluated, and bone mineral density was measured by dual energy x ray densitometry of the lumbar spine. Cord serum zinc, parathyroid hormone, osteocalci...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Identification of women at risk of bone fracture is becoming less dependent on evaluating bone mineral density through placing greater value on clinical risk factors. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of the Osteorisk clinical tool for identifying Brazilian postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, compared with bone densitometry. DESIGN AND SETTING Cro...

Osteoporosis is known as a silent disease because bone density slowly decreases with advancing age and without symptoms. The incidence of osteoporosis is increasing yearly worldwide. Measuring bone mineral density (BMD) using conventional bone densitometry (DXA) is practical in diagnosis of osteoporosis but the cost is high and cannot be implemented in community. However, quantitative

The concept of bone quality describes the sets of the characteristics of the osseous tissue that influence bone strength. The aim was to explore the influence of anthropometric parameters and age on the parameters of the bone architecture and bone mineral properties in the lumbar vertebral bone of men and women. Vertebral bone samples underwent bone histomorphometry, bone densitometry and atomi...

BACKGROUND Bone mineral densitometry has been proven to be a powerful tool for the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, which is increasing with aging of the population, but opportunities to perform bone mineral densitometry in elderly facility residents, who are at a high risk of fracture, are scarce. METHODS We measured the bone mineral density in 315 residents of 5 care facilities for ...

It is well known that patients with recurrent calcium nephrolithiasis present bone mineral density loss manifesting as osteopenia or osteoporosis in the lumbar spine and/or hip.1 Moreover, it has been observed that in patients with calcium stones and idiopathic hypercalciuria, higher levels of fasting calcium/creatinine increase the possibility of osteopenia, therefore there is a risk factor fo...

We present a 44-year-old female patient with recurrent fragility fractures including an intercondylar femoral fracture and with normal planar bone densitometry. Diagnosis of hypophosphatasia was suggested by low volumetric cortical bone mineral density and laboratory findings. DNA sequencing revealed heterozygous mutations in the exons 5, 6 and 9 of the ALPL gene, thus confirming the suspected ...