Vertebral Fracture

A report from The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission has proposed new criteria for defining and diagnosing obesity, including measuring body fat to diagnose obesity instead of BMI alone.

Early postmenopausal women who receive zoledronate every 5 years have a lower risk for morphometric vertebral fractures than those receiving placebo, according to trial findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Published results showed the validated fracture risk assessment tool, known as FRAX, may underestimate the risk of some vertebral fractures and subsequent clinical fractures, such as major osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures.

Muscle mass as measured through high-resolution peripheral quantitative CT may not interact with bone measures to affect the risk for fractures among older men, though more studies are needed, according to study data.

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.

Patients had poor compliance with wearing hyperextension orthoses for nonoperative treatment of osteoporotic vertebral fractures, according to results published in The Spine Journal.

Published results showed biomechanical CT analysis may identify patients aged 50 years or older with primary spinal fusion and osteoporosis who had elevated risks for reoperation and vertebral fracture.

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 a post from April about my struggle with osteoporosis, I wrote about my own case of the disease, which was unique in many ways.

Published results showed hospitalized bed rest for 2 weeks may reduce the number of patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures and poor prognostic MRI findings who require surgery.