Bone Abstracts

¹CRBM, CNRS, Montpellier, France; ²Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.

University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy.

¹RETICEF, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; ²Bone Metabolic Unit, Endocrinology Division (RETICEF), Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Spain; ³Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital del Mar-IMIM-UAB, Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Marqués Valdecilla, Santander, Spain; ⁵Osteoporosis Research Group, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, LasPalmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; ⁶Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain; ⁷Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Río Ortega, Valladolid, Spain; ⁸Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain; ⁹Department of Reumatology, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain; ¹⁰Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Universitario Quirón, Madrid, Spain; ¹¹CETIR Medical Center, Barcelona, Spain; ¹²Trabeculae, Ourense, Spain.

¹Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ³Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ⁴Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnacy, British Columbia, Canada.

¹University of Dundee, Dundee, UK; ²Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, Edinburgh, UK.

Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

¹KORA – National Institute for Municipalities’ and Regions’ Analysis
and Research, Copenhagen, Denmark; ²MSD Denmark ApS, Ballerup, Denmark; ³Clinical Institute, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; ⁴iTracks, Arhus, Denmark; ⁵Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station,
New Jersey, USA.

¹Radius Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Charles River
Laboratories Preclinical Services, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

¹St. Joseph’s Healthcare, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ²Rheumatology Section, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Lille, Lille, France; ⁴Bridge Medical Center, Crawley, West Sussex, UK; ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; ⁶Departments of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Gothenburg University, Göteborg, Sweden; ⁷Biomedical Research Institute, University Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium; ⁸Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA.

Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Department of Medical Science, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

¹Bone Metabolic Unit (RETICEF), Endocrinology Division, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Instituto de Investigación de Granada, Granada, Spain; ²Endocrinology Unit, Hospital General Universitario Rafael Mendez, Lorca, Murcia, Spain; ³Endocrinology, Hospital Comarcal del Noroeste, Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, Spain; ⁴Palacios Institute of Women’s Health, Madrid, Spain; ⁵Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain; ⁶Nutrition Department, Biosearch S.A, Granada, Spain.

¹Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA; ²Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel; ³Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel; ⁴MSD Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel.

¹Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark; ²Aarhus Universitetshospital, THG, Aarhus, Denmark; ³Nordsjaellands Hospital, Hilleroed, Denmark; ⁴Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; ⁵Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark; ⁶Regionshospitalet Horsens, Horsens, Denmark; ⁷Herlev Hospital, Herlev, Denmark; ⁸Gentofte Hospital, Gentofte, Denmark; ⁹Svendborg Sygehus, Svendborg, Denmark; ¹⁰Vejle Sygehus, Vejle, Denmark; ¹¹Holbaek Sygehus, Holbaek, Denmark; ¹²Silkeborg Sygehus, Silkeborg, Denmark; ¹³Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark; ¹⁴Aarhus Universitetshospital, PGO, Aarhus, Denmark; ¹⁵Amager Hospital, København, Denmark; ¹⁶Regionshospitalet Viborg, Viborg, Denmark; ¹⁷Gigthospitalet Graasten, Graasten, Denmark; ¹⁸Speciallægeklinikken, Aalborg, Denmark.

¹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain;
²Neurointerventional Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; ³Public Health Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; ⁴CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain.

¹Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties and Dentistry, Second University of Naples, Naples, Campania, Italy; ²CIRFF, Center of Pharmacoeconomics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Campania, Italy.

Research Center for obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology Named after V.I.Kulakov Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia.

Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

¹Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Disciplines, Sapienza Univeristy, Rome, Italy; ²Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; ³Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; ⁴Department of Radiology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

¹Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Gotemba, Japan; ²Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.

Bone Biology, Merck Res. Labs., West Point, Pennsylvania, USA.

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan.

¹Maastricht University – CAPHRI, Maastricht, The Netherlands; ²Erasmus Rotterdam University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ³Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, The Netherlands; ⁴University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; ⁵University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

¹Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; ²Capital Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

¹Bioquímica Investigación, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain; ²Trabeculae, Technology Based Firm, Technological Park of Galicia, Ourense, Spain; ³Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery, University Hospital Complex of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; ⁴Internal Medicine, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain.

Hospital General Hospitalet–HSJD Moisès Broggi–CSI, Hospitalet Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.

St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

¹Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; ²Health Services Research Unit, Lillebaelt Hospital/IRS, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; ³Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; ⁴Section Biomedical Imaging, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.

Toride Medical Center, Toride, Japan.

Konyang University Hospital, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

¹St. Joseph’s Healthcare, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ²Rheumatology Section, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Lille, Lille, France; ⁴Bridge Medical Center, Crawley, West Sussex, UK; ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; ⁶Departments of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Gothenburg University, Göteborg, Sweden; ⁷Biomedical Research Institute, University Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium; ⁸Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA.

¹Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Medical University, Graz, Austria; ²The Vinforce Study Group, Medical Department II, St. Vincent Hospital, Vienna, Austria.

Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain.

¹Servicio de Metabolismo Oseo Y Mineral, HUCA, Instituto Reina Sofia de Investigacion, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain; ²Departamento de Biología Funcional, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain; ³Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.

The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

¹Research Institute for Rheumatology RAMS, Moscow, Russia; ²Regional Clinical Hospital of Vladivostok, Vladivostok, Russia; ³Medical University, ‘Kemerovo State Medical Institute’, Russian Ministry of Health, Kemerovo, Russia; ⁴Medical University, ‘Voronezh State Medical Academy named after Burdenko’, Voronezh, Russia; ⁵Medical University, ‘Ivanovo State Medical Academy’ of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Ivanovo, Russia; ⁶Research Experimental Institute of Rheumatology RAMS, Volgograd, Russia.

Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel.

¹UOC Endocrinologia, Ospedale S. Giovanni Calibita, Fatebenefratelli, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy; ²Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi, Università di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; ³SeSMIT AFaR, Fatebenefratelli, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy.

¹Dental Sciences, Cardiff, UK; ²Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen, UK.

¹Okimoto Clinic, Hiroshima, Japan; ²Obase Hospial, Fukuoka, Japan; ³Sakamidorii Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.

¹5th Department of Internal Medicine, Comenius University Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia; ²National Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetology, Lubochna, Slovakia; ³Osteocentrum Hospital Kosice-Saca, Kosice, Slovakia.

Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medical Science, University of Ferrara and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Sant’Anna di Cona, Ferrara, Italy.

¹Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ²Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ³Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ⁴Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ⁵Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; ⁶Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; ⁷Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ⁸Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ⁹Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ¹⁰School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ¹¹Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ¹²Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; ¹³Osteoporosis Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The National Research Center for Endocrinology, Moscow, Russia.

¹Metabolic Bone Disease Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain; ²Metabolic Bone Disease Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain; ³Investigación–Epidemiología. IIS Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain.

HGUGregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen, Wales, UK.

Azienda Ospedaliera Provincia di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

¹UOC Endocrinologia, Ospedale S. Giovanni Calibita, Fatebenefratelli, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy; ²Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi, Università di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; ³SeSMIT AFaR, Fatebenefratelli, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy.

Institute of revmatology, Na Slupi 4, Prague 2, Czech Republic.

¹Department of Geriatrics Hospital of Patti, Patti-Messina, Italy; ²School of Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.

¹Department of Rheumatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; ²Department of Radiology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

Hospital Virgen de la Vega, Salamanca, Spain.

¹Radius Health, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²CCBR, Clinical Research, Denmark; ³M Drug Delivery Systems, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

¹Radius Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Charles River Laboratories Preclinical Services Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ³School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

¹Department of Medical Science, University of Torino, Torino, Italy; ²Cerms, Health And Science City Hospital, Torino, Italy.

¹Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; ²Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA; ³Oregon Osteoporosis Center, Portland, Oregon, USA; ⁴Instituto de Investigaciones Metabólicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina; ⁵University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; ⁶Curato Røntgen, Oslo, Norway.

¹Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ⁵Regional Bone Center, Helen Hayes Hospital, New York, New York, USA.

¹INSERM U1059, University Hospital of St Etienne, St Etienne, France; ²University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ³Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ⁴Instituto de Investigaciones Metabólicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina; ⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; ⁶Center of Bone Diseases, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; ⁷Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA.

¹CHU de Quebec Research Centre, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; ²Bethesda Health Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ³Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA; ⁴Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; ⁵Michigan Bone and Mineral Clinic, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ⁶Clinical Research Center of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA; ⁷VieCuri Medical Centre, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; ⁸Amgen Ltd, Cambridge, UK; ⁹Ovatech Solutions, London, UK; ¹⁰United Osteoporosis Centers, Gainsville, Georgia, USA.

Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

First Medical Department, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology at the Hanusch Hospital of WGKK and AUVA Trauma Centre Meidling, Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria.

¹Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Univ of Oxford, Oxford, UK; ²Odense Patient Data Explorative Network, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; ³Department of Endocrinology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark; ⁴Department of Human Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; ⁵Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; ⁶MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton, UK; ⁷Research Centre for Ageing and Osteoporosis, Glostrup Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

¹Division of Bone Disease, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland; ²Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.