Key Clinical Points Postmenopausal Osteoporosis Fragility fractures are very common
among postmenopausal women and are associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and …

Controlling the excessive fracture burden in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD)
Stages G4–G5D remains an impressive challenge. The reasons are 2-fold. First, the …

Importance Few studies have assessed the effects of daily vitamin D doses at or above the
tolerable upper intake level for 12 months or greater, yet 3% of US adults report vitamin D …

Osteoporosis is one of the frequently encountered non-communicable diseases in the world
today. Several hundred million people have osteoporosis, with many more at risk. The …

Osteoporosis is associated with increased fragility of bone and a subsequent increased risk
of fracture. The diagnosis of osteoporosis is intimately linked with the imaging and …

Patients living with osteoporosis are projected to increase dramatically in the next decade.
Alongside the forecasted increased societal and economic burden, we will live a crisis of …

High‐resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR‐pQCT) is a noninvasive
imaging modality for assessing volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) and …

High-resolution peripheral computed tomography (HR-pQCT) was developed to image bone
microarchitecture in vivo at peripheral skeletal sites. Since the introduction of HR-pQCT in …

A large international meta-analysis using primary data from 64 cohorts has quantified the
increased risk of fracture associated with a previous history of fracture for future use in …

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to review the available approaches for bone
strength assessment, osteoporosis diagnosis and fracture risk prediction, and to provide …