Osteoporosis News

Increasing calcium and protein intake through dairy products reduced the risk for falls and fractures among older adults living in care homes by 33%, according to results of a randomized controlled trial published in the BMJ.

Fracture and mortality risks for men aged 80 years or older have different profiles, and an assessment of both could help to inform osteoporosis drug treatment decisions, according to a speaker.

Variables added to adjust the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool for recent fractures overestimated risk in a cohort of older women from Canada, according to a speaker.

Hip fracture hospitalizations decreased by 11% in France during the first COVID-19 lockdown compared with the year before, according to a speaker at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting.

An effective way to predict a woman aged 25 to 31 years will develop osteoporosis is to do a check of sclerostin and possibly other blood serum markers for bone turnover at key timepoints in the woman’s life, according to a presenter.

Alendronate, a drug commonly used to treat osteoporosis, may help protect against type 2 diabetes, according to a presenter at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes virtual meeting.

SAN DIEGO — A study that identified the incidence and predictors of scapular fractures in patients after primary reverse shoulder arthroplasty showed an estimated incidence of 6.9% and that hypothyroidism was among the fracture predictors.

Discrepancies between clinical practice guideline documents highlight the over-arching controversies in osteoporosis management, according to a presenter at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-West.

A reminder of some common and not-so-common clinical scenarios can make every rheumatologist more capable of delivering optimal patient care, according to a presenter at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-West.

People with diabetes and less appendicular skeletal muscle mass are more likely to have lower bone mineral density in the lumbar spine, hip and femoral neck and are at a greater risk for osteoporosis, according to study data.