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Little has been understood about vitamin D status in relation to bone health in Asian women. The purpose of this study was to identify how the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) concentration is associated with bone mass and bone metabolism. This cross-sectional, community-based epidemiologic study was conducted among 600 ambulatory postmenopausal women. The serum 25(OH)D concentration was measured...
Ethnic variation in soft tissue composition may contribute to observed ethnic differences in bone mineral density (BMD). This analysis was performed to determine whether ethnic differences in body composition affect differences in BMD between Canadian White and Aboriginal women. An age-stratified population-based sample of 206 Aboriginal women and 177 White women underwent multisite bone density measurements...
Most of the currently available anti-osteoporosis medications promptly and significantly influence the rate of bone turnover. Biochemical markers of bone turnover now provide a high sensitivity to change, allowing the detection of these bone turnover changes within a couple of weeks. Since the anti-fracture efficacy of inhibitors of bone resorption or stimulators of bone formation appears to be largely...
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