Osteoarthritis and Bone Disorders News

SAN DIEGO — Mitigating infection risks while preventing flares is often a balancing act for rheumatologists managing patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a presenter at the 2023 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.

SAN DIEGO — The ability to recognize common osteoarthritis risk factors will become increasingly critical in the coming decades, as recent data project the global prevalence of the disease will reach 1 billion by 2050, noted a speaker here.

Nearly 1 billion people will be burdened with osteoarthritis by 2050, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis who exercise fare better than patients who do not, with those demonstrating worse severity and function at baseline benefitting most acutely, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

SANTA FE, N.M. — In this video exclusive, Michael R. McClung, MD, discusses strategies for drug holidays and transitions between osteoporosis therapies.

SANTA FE, N.M. — In this video exclusive, E. Michael Lewiecki, MD, FACE, FACP, describes Bone Health ECHO, a virtual community of physicians who review osteoporosis and bone-disease cases together each week via video conferencing.

SANTA FE, N.M. — In this video exclusive, Jacques P. Brown, MD, discusses clinical applications of bone turnover markers in managing osteoporosis.

Adults with postoperative hypoparathyroidism after thyroid cancer are less likely to sustain a fracture compared with those with preserved parathyroid function, according to findings published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

Several meniscus shape features, including horn lengths, root attachment angles and concavity, may indicate an increased risk for knee osteoarthritis, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists “might be disease-modifying” in patients with knee osteoarthritis and type 2 diabetes if treatment is sustained for a sufficient period, according to data.