MALE OSTEOPOROSIS

Alendronate and male osteoporosis.

Update in male osteoporosis.

CONTEXT Osteoporosis in men is becoming an increasingly important public health problem. One in five men over the age of 50 yr will suffer an osteoporotic fracture during their lifetime, and men who sustain fractures have an increased mortality risk. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Evidence was obtained by PubMed search and author's knowledge of the field. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS Studies using computed qua...

Male Osteoporosis in the Elderly

Osteoporosis is now recognized as an important public health problem in elderly men as fragility fractures are complicated by increased morbidity, mortality, and social costs. This review comprises an overview of recent findings in pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of male osteoporosis, with particular regard to the old population.

Male osteoporosis: diagnosis and fracture risk evaluation.

Male osteoporosis is challenging to diagnose and to treat. Underestimation of the risk of male osteoporosis, the combined presence of several interwoven causative factors in many patients, and uncertainty regarding the absorptiometry cutoffs associated with fractures are major obstacles to the diagnosis of male osteoporosis and to the identification of men at risk for fractures. The lifetime ri...

Corrigendum to “Male Osteoporosis in the Elderly”

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2015/907689.].