A. Grant, A Avenell, Marion Campbell, Andrew M. McDonald et al.
Background Elderly people who have a fracture are at high risk of another. Vitamin D and calcium supplements are often recommended for fracture prevention. We aimed to assess whether vitamin D3 and calcium, either alone or in combination, were effective in prevention of secondary fractures. Methods ...
Anne Polikeit, Lutz P. Nolte, Stephen J. Ferguson
STUDY DESIGN: The effect of cement augmentation on an osteoporotic lumbar functional spinal unit was investigated using finite-element analysis. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of cement augmentation on load transfer, stresses, and strains. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Osteoporosis is the most f...
Rikke Rousing, Karina Liv Hansen, Mikkel Østerheden Andersen, Stig M. Jespersen et al.
STUDY DESIGN: Clinical randomized study. OBJECTIVE: Percutaneous vertebroplasty is compared to conservative treatment in patients with acute or subacute osteoporotic vertebral fractures with respect to pain, physical and mental outcomes. The risk of vertebral fractures adjacent to treated levels is ...
Fiona E. McGuigan, Liam Murray, Alison Gallagher, George Davey-Smith et al.
Peak bone mass is an important risk factor for the development of osteoporosis in later life. Previous work has suggested that genetic, intrauterine, and environmental factors all contribute to the regulation of bone mass, but the ways in which they interact with each other to do so remain poorly un...
Bipradas Roy
Osteoporosis has become a serious health problem throughout the world which is associated with an increased risk of bone fractures and mortality among the people of middle to old ages. Diabetes is also a major health problem among the people of all age ranges and the sufferers due to this abnormalit...
Md. Zahirul Islam, Mohammed Akhtaruzzaman, Christel Lamberg‐Allardt
The present cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the vitamin D status in three groups of women in Bangladesh by using serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (S-25-OHD), alkaline phosphatase (S-ALP), calcium (S-Ca) and phosphate (S-P). Sampling was undertaken at three locations in the city of Dhaka, Ban...
Md Zahirul Islam, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Virpi Kemi, Antti Nevanlinna et al.
The manufacture of garments is the main industry in Bangladesh and employs 1·6 million female workers. Due to the indoor lifestyle and low dietary intake of calcium, we hypothesised that they are at risk of low vitamin D and bone mineral status. Two hundred female garment workers (aged 18–36 years) ...
Md Zahirul Islam, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Heli Viljakainen, Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman et al.
Due to little outdoor activity and low dietary intake of vitamin D (VD), Bangladeshi low-income women are at risk for osteoporosis at an early age. The present study assessed the effect of VD, Ca and multiple micronutrient supplementation on VD and bone status in Bangladeshi young female garment fac...
J. Reeve, Richard Wootton, R. Hesp
1. A new method for calculating the accretion rate (A) of bone calcium is proposed, based on an impulse analysis of 47Ca data. The method is free of most of the assumptions inherent in previous methods of analysis and appears to give more accurate estimates. 2. In fourteen normal subjects and twelve...
Shicheng He, Gao‐Jun Teng, Gang Deng, Fang Wen et al.
STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study was performed in patients with a repeat percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) at the vertebral levels previously undergoing vertebroplasty. OBJECTIVE: Our purpose of this study is to examine if a repeat PV is effective on pain-relief at the vertebral levels previously ...
Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, Kamrul Islam, Md. Jahangir Alam, Amina Khatun et al.
BACKGROUND: The Tridax procumbens flavonoids (TPF), are well known for their medicinal properties among local natives. The TPF are traditionally used for dropsy, anaemia, arthritis, gout, asthma, ulcer, piles, and urinary problems. It also used in treating gastric problems, body pain, and rheumatic ...
Mohammad Zahidul Islam, Christel Lamberg‐Allardt, M Kärkkäinen, S Ali
Objective Evaluation of data on dietary calcium intake in premenopausal women of two socio-economic groups in Bangladesh. Design A cross sectional study. Three days dietary records were used to estimate habitual calcium intake. Setting Two regions of Bangladesh. The Dhaka city area and the Betagair ...
Md Zahirul Islam, Heli Viljakainen, Merja Kärkkäinen, Elisa Saarnio et al.
Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is one of the outcomes of vitamin D deficiency that negatively affects bone metabolism. We studied the ethnic differences in vitamin D status in Finland and its effect on serum intact parathyroid hormone (S-iPTH) concentration and bone traits. The study was done ...
Joseph D. Smucker, John A. Bobst, Emily Petersen, James V. Nepola et al.
STUDY DESIGN: Six groups of 10 animals underwent single level, uninstrumented posterolateral lumbar fusions. Graft sites were implanted with autologous bone, autologous bone plus B2A coated granules with concentrations of 0-, 50-, 100-, or 300 microg/mL, or no graft material. Explanted motion segmen...
K. Lewin, Hamish Sinclair, Christine Bond
BACKGROUND: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) could benefit women who have reached the natural menopause, have had a hysterectomy or have a family history of osteoporosis. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to monitor changes in women's knowledge of, and attitudes towards, HRT since 1991. METHODS: The study was...