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Filter by:Low bone mineral density (BMD) has recently increased among young women. Soy Isoflavone as a food supplement, has been found to have potent effect on bone health in postmenopausal women. However, the effect of soy isoflavone on pre-menopausal is not well understood. This research is done to examine the effect of soy isoflavones on BMD among young university female students.
Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder and repeated joint bleeding leads to hemophilic arthropathy. Among patients with hemophilia, vitamin D deficiency and hemophilic arthropathy have been associated with osteoporosis in several clinical studies.There is no data on the prevalence of osteoporosis in hemophilia patients in Taiwan or Asia. To the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have reported the prevalence of sarcopenia and correlation with osteoporosis in hemophilia adult patients. This study will investigate the prevalence and corelation of sarcopenia and low BMD in patients with hemophilia. patients in Taiwan. The study will estimate the prevalence of sarcopenia and body composition in the hemophilia population and compared baseline demographic and clinical characteristics between the non-sarcopenia and sarcopenia individuals, with particular emphasis on the overlap with osteoporosis and hemophilic arthropathy.
The primary objectives of this study are to: (1) determine the impact of glomerular disease on bone strength and (2) investigate the pathophysiologic underpinnings of impaired bone strength in glomerular disease.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of combination of aerobic and resistive exercise on activities of daily living and risk of fall in osteosarcopenic patients
The goal of this study is to assess the feasibility of emerging CT-based tools to measure changes in central and peripheral bone density, micro-structure, and marrow adipose tissue (MAT) among patients treated with oral steroids.
Methods of diagnostic and treatment of hormonal disorders in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) will be developed and implemented in real clinical practice. As a result of the project, new scientific data will be obtained on the relationship of hyperprolactinemia and impaired functioning of the pituitary-gonadal axis, changes in functioning of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system will be revealed, and the characteristics of the thyroid and parathyroid status in patients with CKD will be determined, including receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT) and after kidney transplantation, which will improve the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment of hormonal disorders in the early stages of the disease, reduce the direct financial costs of the diagnostic and treatment process primarily due to the optimization of hormonal studies and treatment of the revealed disorders, as well as will prevent the progression of CKD and the severity of the condition of this category of patients due to the development of hormonal dysfunctions.
Blood circulation within bone is thought to have a key role in bone growth, in fracture healing and in the development of bone diseases like osteoporosis. Current medical imaging techniques such as conventional ultrasonography fail to detect blood circulation within bone. The investigators propose to develop a new type of ultrasonography called intraosseous functional ultrasonography that will enable the detection and the characterization of blood circulation in solid bone tissue, marrow and soft tissues surrounding bone (muscle for instance). Because most soft tissues are essentially made of water, the speed of sound in soft tissues is close to that in water and it varies only a little between different types of soft tissues. For this reason, clinical ultrasound scanners used for ultrasonography assume that the speed of sound in the human body is the same for all types of soft tissues. This assumption is reasonable in soft tissues, but it does not hold in bone because solid bone tissue is much stiffer than soft tissues. Seismologists have extensive experience in producing images of the structure of the Earth based on the analysis of elastic waves which follow the same laws of Physics as ultrasound waves. The subsurface of the Earth contains layers of solid materials and liquids, consequently it is very similar to a region of the human body containing bone and soft tissues. Therefore the investigators will first work on the adaption of time-tested seismic imaging methods to make ultrasonography of bone possible. Once a correct image of bone is obtained, the investigators will use an ultrasound scanner dedicated to research to repeat this image hundreds of times per second, very much like a slow motion video. Because blood is moving while bone is still, the intensity in the image is being slightly changed where blood is moving. Thus the analysis of these changes makes it possible to detect and characterize blood flow within bone. In this way the investigators expect to be able to detect blood flowing with a speed as low as a few millimeters per second. Finally the sensitivity of the technique to detect and characterize blood circulation in bone will be evaluated in patients at the hospital and in healthy volunteers. The success of this work will help gaining knowledge on the role of blood circulation within bone. In the long term, it may help in the diagnosis of bone diseases.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the radiographic changes on the marginal peri-implant bone level on bone level implants with a narrower transmucosal abutment, in comparison to the conventional abutment, both of 3mm height
Patients will be randomized into 2 groups: - Group 60: Patients will undergo a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass with a Biliopancreatic limb length of 60cm - Group 100: Patients will undergo a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass with a Biliopancreatic limb length of 100cm Bone mineral density will be evaluated before surgery and 2 years after it.
This was an open-label, single-center study to evaluate the usability of abaloparatide-sMTS by participants with low BMD.