Osteoporosis imaging: state of the art and advanced imaging

TM Link - Radiology, 2012 - pubs.rsna.org
Osteoporosis is becoming an increasingly important public health issue, and effective
treatments to prevent fragility fractures are available. Osteoporosis imaging is of critical …

Fracture prediction, imaging and screening in osteoporosis

NR Fuggle, EM Curtis, KA Ward, NC Harvey… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Osteoporosis is associated with increased fragility of bone and a subsequent increased risk
of fracture. The diagnosis of osteoporosis is intimately linked with the imaging and …

Targeted exercise against osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis for optimising bone strength throughout life

R Nikander, H Sievänen, A Heinonen, RM Daly… - BMC medicine, 2010 - Springer
Background Exercise is widely recommended to reduce osteoporosis, falls and related
fragility fractures, but its effect on whole bone strength has remained inconclusive. The …

Exercise effects on bone mineral density in older adults: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

EA Marques, J Mota, J Carvalho - Age, 2012 - Springer
The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of exercise interventions with different
impact loading characteristics on lumbar spine (LS) and femoral neck (FN) bone mineral …

Advances in bone imaging for osteoporosis

JE Adams - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2013 - nature.com
The diagnosis and management of osteoporosis have been improved by the development of
new quantitative methods of skeletal assessment and by the availability of an increasing …

Vibrational spectroscopic techniques to assess bone quality

EP Paschalis, S Gamsjaeger, K Klaushofer - Osteoporosis International, 2017 - Springer
Although musculoskeletal diseases such as osteoporosis are diagnosed and treatment
outcome is evaluated based mainly on routine clinical outcomes of bone mineral density …

QCT-based finite element models predict human vertebral strength in vitro significantly better than simulated DEXA

E Dall'Ara, D Pahr, P Varga, F Kainberger… - Osteoporosis …, 2012 - Springer
While dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is considered the gold standard to evaluate
fracture risk in vivo, in the present study, the quantitative computed tomography (QCT) …

Long-term metreleptin treatment increases bone mineral density and content at the lumbar spine of lean hypoleptinemic women

E Sienkiewicz, F Magkos, KN Aronis, M Brinkoetter… - Metabolism, 2011 - Elsevier
Strenuously exercising young women with hypothalamic amenorrhea are hypoleptinemic
and have low bone mineral density (BMD) and content (BMC), which predispose them to …

Trabecular morphometry by fractal signature analysis is a novel marker of osteoarthritis progression

VB Kraus, S Feng, SC Wang, S White… - … : Official Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of using subchondral bone texture observed on a
radiograph taken at baseline to predict progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA) over a 3‐year …

Effects of strontium ranelate and alendronate on bone microstructure in women with osteoporosis: results of a 2-year study

R Rizzoli, RD Chapurlat, JM Laroche, MA Krieg… - Osteoporosis …, 2012 - Springer
Strontium ranelate appears to influence more than alendronate distal tibia bone
microstructure as assessed by high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography …