The National Bone Health Alliance working group expanded criteria for the clinical diagnosis of osteoporosis to include T-score < 2.5 at the spine or hip; low-trauma hip fracture; low-trauma vertebral ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most osteoporosis guidelines recommend that bone density testing is not appropriate in healthy premenopausal ...

NIH/National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases High-Trauma Fractures in Older Men and Women Linked to Osteoporosis Researchers at the California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The NIH convened a consensus development conference on osteoporosis in 2000. The consensus definition of ...

Low cost osteoporosis drugs are strictly rationed for the under-75s, and UK physicians hampered by restrictive guidelines, according to findings which appear today in the journal Therapeutic Advances ...

Men older than 50 years of age should be regularly assessed for osteoporosis risk factors, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians (ACP). “Osteoporosis is not just a ...

Contrary to a widely held assumption, high-trauma nonspine fractures in older women and men, such as from a car crash, are associated with low bone mineral density and an increased risk of a ...

Bones are living tissue and are continuously remodeling, a process that involves old bone cells dissolving while new bone cells form. Unless there is major trauma, healthy bones in adults should not ...

Although bone mineral density (BMD) testing to screen for osteoporosis (BMD T score, −2.50 or lower) is recommended for women 65 years of age or older, there are few data to guide decisions about the ...