Bone Abstracts

Patients with improved health understanding have greater autonomy over, and motivation towards, health-related lifestyles. We compared self-perceived fracture risk and 3-year incident fracture rates in postmenopausal women for a range of co-morbid diseases using data from the Global Longitudinal study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW).GLOW is an international cohort study involving 723 physician practices across 10 countries in Europe, North America, Austr...

Introduction: Vitamin D is known to be important for bone health. Still, the significance of serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D concentrations (s-25OHD) for hip fracture risk of the elderly is uncertain. Discordant findings may in part be explained by difficulties of RCTs or large cohort studies to reach both the frail and the healthy elderly. The objectives of this study were to determine the risk of hip fractures of the elderly related to s-25OHD, including both the frail and the he...

Early life growth has been suggested to influence bone health. However, the relationship with risk of hip fracture in old age has not been thoroughly investigated. We therefore studied the association between birth weight and hip fracture incidence after age 50 among 10 893 men and women (48% women) from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study (UBCoS, born 1915–1929) and 1334 men from the Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM, born 1920–1924). Birth weight was collec...

Recent studies indicate a potential importance of the antioxidant α-tocopherol for bone and the development of sarcopenia. No longitudinal clinical fracture studies have been performed. We aimed to determine whether α-tocopherol intake or serum concentrations are associated with fracture risk in older women and men. We used data from two community-based cohorts, the Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC; 61 433 women) and the Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM;...

Background: Bisphosphonates are widely used to prevent and treat osteoporosis. Limited evidence suggest that these drugs may reduce mortality, perhaps by protecting against cardiovascular disease. This study investigated the occurrence of heart failure in patients treated with bisphosphonates.Methods: Nationwide retrospective cohort study from Denmark. All users of bisphosphonates and raloxifene (n=4.831) between 1996 and 2006 (n=102.34...

Background: Atypical femur fractures (AFF) arise in the subtrochanteric and diaphyseal regions. Because of this unique distribution, we hypothesized that patients with AFF demonstrate specific geometrical variations of their femur whereby baseline tensile forces applied to the lateral cortex are higher and might favor the appearance of these rare stress fractures, when exposed to bisphosphonates.Methods: Subjects who sustained AFF, as defined by the ASBM...