Fragility fractures of the distal radius represent an opportunity to diagnose and treat osteoporosis before further fractures occur. The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of prescriptions for calcium/vitamin D supplementation and the prevalence of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans in patients who sustained fragility fractures of the distal radius. A further goal was...

OBJECTIVE To analyze whether association between bone fragility and risk of fracture depends on the trauma level. METHOD All participants along with their mothers underwent DXA scan and body measurements. The subjects answered a self-report questionnaire about their physical activities and the precipitating causes. The questionnaire results were associated with DXA performed at the baseline v...

Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by decreasing bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, with consequent increases in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture.1 In addition to fractures, the clinical complications of osteoporosis include disability and chronic pain. Approximately 52 million people in the United States are affected by osteoporos...

BACKGROUND Hip fracture patients have, in several studies, been shown to have excessive mortality. There is, however, a lack of mortality data, in comparison to incidence data, from the last decade in particular. OBJECTIVE To study short- and long-term mortality in a population-based cohort of hip fracture patients over the last decade and compare it to the background population. PATIENTS A...

Obesity was commonly thought to be advantageous for maintaining healthy bones due to the higher bone mineral density observed in overweight individuals. However, several recent studies have challenged the widespread belief that obesity is protective against fracture and have suggested that obesity is a risk factor for certain fractures. The effect of obesity on fracture risk is site-dependent, ...

observed to confer a high risk for skeletal fracture (Conn 1985; Mathew 1992; Seller 1985). While an association between alcoholism and accidental injury is well recognized (Lucas 1987), there is evidence to suggest that alcoholics may also suffer from a generalized skeletal fragility that makes their bones more liable to fracture. Basic science studies have identified processes that shape bone...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the correlation of serum uric acid with bone mineral density (BMD) and fragility fracture in primary osteoporosis (PO) patients. METHODS A retrospective analysis of biochemical parameters including bone turnover markers and bone density was done in patients (n=253) received initial treatment for PO from January 2011 to May 2012 at the Shanghai First P...