Diuretics associated with bone loss in older men
Public release date: 14-Apr-2008 Older men who take loop diuretics, commonly prescribed drugs for heart failure and hypertension, appear to have increased rates of hip bone loss than men who…
Value of drugs for pre-osteoporosis exaggerated – only a 0.9% reduction in absolute risk
Public release date: 17-Jan-2008 Drugs for pre-osteoporosis: Prevention or disease-mongering? A series of recent scientific publications have exaggerated the benefits and underplayed the harms of drugs to treat pre-osteoporosis…
Vitamin D deficiency: Common and problematic yet preventable
Public release date: 18-Jul-2007 According to Holick, a professor of medicine, physiology, and biophysics, and director of the General Clinical Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine and Director of…
Commonly prescribed antidepressants associated with lower bone density in older men and women
Public release date: 25-Jun-2007 The class of antidepressant medications known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors may be associated with an increased rate of bone loss in older men and women,…
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