The year in osteoporosis, Volume 2 (Clinical Pub., 2006)
Editors and Contributors; Preface; Part I: Epidemiology and pathophysiology; 1. Impact of the condition; 2. Risk factors for osteoporosis and fracture; 3. Pathophysiology of osteoporosis; 4. Genetics of osteoporosis; 5. Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis; 6. Secondary osteoporosis; Part II: Bone mass and measurement; 7. Quantitative ultrasound measurements and fracture risk: a review; 8. Update on the role of biochemical markers in the management of osteoporosis; 9. Bone quality; Part III: Management and prevention; 10: Falls: epidemiological aspects and prevention
Osteoporosis has been the subject of a rapid growth in research over the past twenty years. Papers describing recent advances are published in a wide range of journals, reflecting the diversity of clinical and research specialties that are concerned with this disease. The editors of this volume have brought together a multi-disciplinary team to select and critically appraise the important publications of the past eighteen months. Many journals have been scanned to provide the collection of key papers which are evaluated and linked in this book, giving the interested clinician a single volume t