Bone Fracture

Machine learning may be able to identify older adults most at risk for major adverse cardiovascular events by assessing abdominal aortic calcification in vertebral fracture assessment images, according to study data.

Living kidney donors had a lower overall risk for bone fractures following donation but experienced significantly more vertebral breaks vs. a control group, researchers found.

A history of premenopausal bilateral oophorectomy, especially when younger than 46 years, increased the odds of arthritis, asthma, obstructive sleep apnea and bone fractures, researchers reported in Menopause.

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.

Middle-aged and older adults who live in areas with greater air pollution may have a higher risk for incident fractures, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who use denosumab as a first-line therapy have lowers risk for fractures compared with women who use alendronate, according to an industry press release.

In an update to its guidance on primary osteoporosis, ACP recommended bisphosphonates as a first line of defense to reduce fracture risk in men and postmenopausal women.

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Older cancer survivors have an increased risk for pelvic and vertebral bone fracture compared with older adults without a history of cancer, research published in JAMA Oncology showed.

The number of accidents involving electric scooters, as well as ensuing hospitalizations, significantly increased among children over the last decade, a recent study found. Harrison Hayward, MD, an emergency medicine fellow at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., said in a press release that the upward trend may be connected to a rise in rideshare e-scooter apps.