(HealthDay News) — In a consensus statement issued by the European Renal Association and published online Nov. 28 in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, recommendations are presented for the ...

This week we are going to discuss something which is quite common, yet it occurs for a variety of reasons—the vertebral compression fracture (VCF). Vertebral compression fractures occur when the ...

Research indicates that osteoporosis and osteoarthritis (OA) are inversely related; however, limited evidence suggests that disc-space narrowing increases the risk of vertebral fracture in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with acromegaly are more likely to experience a vertebral fracture than those without the disease, and ...

The researchers found that 6.3, 6.6, and 11.1% of the zoledronate-zoledronate, zoledronate-placebo, and placebo-placebo groups, respectively, had a new morphometric fracture at follow-up. HealthDay ...

In the current study by Kallmes and colleagues, 131 patients with 1-3 painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures were randomized to receive either vertebroplasty (using polymethylmethacrylate) or sham ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with postmenopausal osteoporosis who received the monoclonal antibody romosozumab were less likely to ...

In a small study, 34% of dialysis patients had vertebral fractures, and patients in the highest tertile of parathyroid hormone level had a nearly 3-fold increased risk of these fractures compared with ...

The prevalence of vertebral fractures is high among men with prostate cancer at the start of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), according to findings from a cross-sectional, real-world study in the ...

Early findings from the AI-enabled Detection of OsteoPorosis for Treatment (ADOPT) study, which uses a Nanox.AI artificial intelligence solution, HealthVCF, to review routine CT scans, have identified ...

This article reviews the implications of documentation of vertebral fracture for subsequent fracture risk and its role as an adjunct to bone-density assessment. Strategies for the management of ...

Around a quarter of European women aged over 75 years are thought to have experienced vertebral fracture; however, around two-thirds of vertebral fractures are not diagnosed immediately, which can ...