Summary   Bone, muscle, and fat may affect gait and balance in older adults. Osteoporosis was prevalent in low muscle mass participants and related to gait and balance deficits. Low muscle ...

Summary   The cost-effectiveness of strontium ranelate was compared to no treatment in UK women using the FRAX® algorithm for fracture risk assessment. At a willingness-to-pay of £30,000 ...

Summary   Children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) manifest low bone mass; the cause remains unclear. We performed transilial bone biopsies in 20 IBD children at diagnosis and found ...

Summary   We analyzed 1,217 women to examine the effect of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors gamma (PPARγ) C161 → T on bone status. Among 664 premenopausal ...

Summary   The role of circulating osteoprogenitor cells in postmenopausal osteoporosis is unknown. We found that alkaline-phosphatase-positive (AP+) cells are the lacking cells in ...

Summary   Osteoprotegerin plays a key role in bone remodelling. We studied the association between 24 polymorphisms and haplotypes on the OPG gene and bone mineral density and fractures. ...

Summary The relationship between the levels of gonadotropic hormones and bone metabolism in Chinese adult women is unclear. Our research shows that a significant positive correlation exists between ...

Summary   We compared microarchitecture and mechanical competence parameters measured by high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) and finite-element analysis of ...

Summary   The aim of the study was to investigate prospectively whether the levels of urinary pentosidine could predict fractures in postmenopausal women from the OFELY cohort. The results ...

Summary   Osteoporotic post-menopausal women patients in two randomised trials comparing the anti-fracture efficacy of strontium ranelate with placebo were separated into tertiles according ...

Summary   Hip fractures are a common and serious consequence of falls. Training of proper fall techniques may be useful to prevent hip fractures in the elderly. The results suggested that ...

ABSTRACTS We investigated the role of zoledronic acid on the regenerate and native bone after consolidation and removal of the external fixator in a rabbit model of distraction osteogenesis using 28 ...

Abstract Bone marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) have the in vitro capacity to differentiate into osteoblasts, chondrocytes or adipocytes, depending on the applied stimulus. In ...

Abstract Low bone mineral density (BMD) is an important risk factor for skeletal fractures which occur in about 40% of women ≥ 50 years in the western world. We describe the ...

Abstract Paget's disease of bone (PDB) is a common metabolic bone disorder with a significant genetic component. To date, only one gene associated with PDB has been identified, the ...