The value of peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) in the diagnosis of osteoporosis
AIM: To evaluate the accuracy of distal radial pQCT in discriminating between osteoporotic fracture and non fracture cases and its effi...
Effects of teriparatide [recombinant human parathyroid hormone (1-34)] on cortical bone in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
Treatment with teriparatide (rDNA origin) injection ] reduces the risk of vertebral and nonvertebral fragility fractures and increases ...
Can exercise prevent osteoporosis
Commonly used definitions of osteoporosis rely upon the measurement of bone mass or bone mineral density and regard the difference betw...
Changes of trabecular bone density in elderly subjects: a 4-year prospective pQCT study
In large cohort studies changes in bone density and mass are often described statistically as mean values over a period of time1,2. Thi...
Site-specific skeletal response to long-term weight training seems to be attributable to principal loading modality: a pQCT study of female weightlifters
Physical training may be able to improve bone strength through site-specific changes in the composition, size and structure of the bone...
Klinische Diagnostik des Regelkreises Muskel-Knochen am Unterschenkel
Die Entstehung von osteoporose-bezogenen Frakturen kann nicht allein aus Knochenparametern abgeleitet werden, denn extravertebrale Frak...
Bone mineral content per muscle cross-sectional area as an index of the functional muscle-bone unit
Bone densitometric data often are difficult to interpret in children and adolescents because of large inter- and intraindividual variat...
Postmenopausal changes in the distribution of the volumetric BMD of cortical bone. A pQCT study of the human leg
Three different regions of interest (ROIs) were defined in pQCT scans (XCT-3000 machine, Stratec, Germany) taken at the tibial mid-diap...
