Osteoporosis News

It will be “many years” before any new pharmacologic osteoporosis therapies are approved, as there are currently no new drugs in phase 2 or 3 development, according to a speaker at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-East meeting.

Just one-third of women older than 65 years were screened for osteoporosis at an internal medicine clinic, and one-third of those diagnosed were untreated, noted a speaker at the 2021 North American Young Rheumatology Investigator Forum.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who receive even low daily doses of glucocorticoids are at a 59% increased risk for clinical vertebral fracture, according to data published in Rheumatology.

There is a bidirectional relationship between cognitive decline and accelerated bone loss with increased fracture risk among women, according to new data published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis receiving romosozumab for 12 months had larger improvements in bone mineral density and bone strength at the lumbar spine compared with those receiving alendronate alone, according to study data.

Postmenopausal women have an increased risk for a subsequent fracture after both traumatic and nontraumatic initial fractures, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Adults with epilepsy who initiated any osteoporosis drug therapy had a lower 3-year mortality risk compared with those who did not take a medication, according to study data published in Bone.

In this video exclusive, Miguel Regueiro, MD, discussed a presentation from Digestive Disease Week on the impact of biologics on the prevalence of osteoporosis and bone fractures in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Evaluating bone mineral density can help predict atherosclerotic CVD events in women, according to a study published in Heart.

Preoperative osteoporosis treatment lowered the risks of osteoporosis-related complications and revision surgery in patients undergoing spinal fusion of three levels or more at 1 year, according to published results.