Bone Abstracts

Several independent international studies have shown increased bone fracture rates in patients with hyponatremia (HN). A likely major contributor to this finding is gait instability and increased falls in HN patients. Studies in experimental animals have also demonstrated HN-induced bone loss, and analysis of human subjects in NHANES III showed a significantly increased odds ratio for osteoporosis by hip DXA in the HN subjects in this database. In vitro studies of the...