develops osteopenia and osteoporosis in the course of disease. Recent data from a mouse model of colitis suggest that the receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B (RANKL)/osteoprotegerin (OPG) ...

The previous version of the guideline dates from 2011, a time when the applicability of bone densitometry in the assessment of patients with chronic kidney disease was questionable; the treatment of ...

Further, to explore the associations between bone loss and markers of RA disease. Methods: All 20 patients with RA (10 patients in each treatment group) had active, early RA. Bone mineral density (BMD ...

Correspondence to Dr Giovanni Orsolini, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, University of Verona, Verona 37134, Italy; giovanniorsolini{at}gmail.com ...

Osteoporosis is a bone disease that’s common in the United States, affecting almost 20 percent of women and 5 percent of men over age 50. Osteoporosis occurs when bones are weakened by hormone ...

Him carrying a backpack is what led to the injury. The condition, also known as brittle bone disease, affects an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 people in the United States, according to the Cedars ...

We know that early diagnosis of brittle bone conditions means faster treatment and better ... scans are part of his package to modernise scanning technology so we can catch diseases like osteoporosis ...

He was diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. Jonah was born with a broken arm, and scans showed that Jonah had already suffered fractures when he was in his ...

Once the disease has reached the bone the only option is amputation. "I was able to slightly walk, although the disease had eaten all my toes," Lokonyi, 28, told AFP. She was shunned by the local ...

Joyce Lokonyi sits on an upturned bucket, fingers weaving palm fronds as the wind pulls her dress to expose the stump of her amputated foot, lost to a little-known disease ravaging Kenya's poorest ...

frequently resulting in the development of chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD). Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, particularly the TRPV (vanilloid), TRPC (canonical), ...