Bone/Mineral Metabolism News

The benefits of gender-affirming hormone therapy outweigh the risks for transgender women of all ages as well as those with comorbidities, according to a speaker at the 2022 North American Menopause Society annual meeting.

Adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes lost trabecular volumetric bone mineral density over 1 year compared with gains for girls without diabetes, with greater loss at higher HbA1c levels, according to a speaker.

Age-standardized incidence of hip fractures dropped by 27% among women and 20% among men in Norway from 1999 to 2019, with the rising number of hip prostheses accounting for nearly 20% of this decline, according to study data.

The total number of hip fractures globally is projected to nearly double from 2018 to 2050 as the aging population is expected to increase, according to a speaker at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting.

The FDA has granted breakthrough device designation to a clinical tool for determining bone fragility and fracture risk for older women, according to an industry press release.

In a large cohort of women, those who were vegetarians demonstrated an elevated risk for hip fracture compared with their meat-eating counterparts, according to recent research.

Prediction models incorporating both cardiovascular disease and fracture risk factors may be able to predict the risk for major adverse CV events in adults with osteoporosis, according to study data.

Adults who eat a vegan diet and perform resistance training at least once per week have stronger bone microarchitecture than vegans who do not perform resistance training, according to study findings.

Denosumab is associated with a greater increase in lumbar spine bone mineral density at 12 months compared with ibandronate as a sequential treatment after 12 months of romosozumab therapy, according to study findings published in Bone.

Vitamin D3 supplementation is not associated with a reduced risk for fractures among healthy middle-aged and older adults, according to study results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.