The Osteoporotic syndrome
Subtitle: detection, prevention, and treatment
By: edited by Louis V. Avioli.
Contributors: Avioli, Louis V.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Osteoporosis
Notes: Previous ed.: New York ; Chichester : Wiley-Liss, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The necessity of a managed care approach for osteoporosis; title: Ch. 2. Effects of aging on bone structure and metabolism; title: Ch. 3. The genetics of osteoporosis; title: Ch. 4. Bone mass measurement techniques in clinical practice; title: Ch. 5. Biochemical markers of bone turnover; title: Ch. 6. Calcium, vitamin D, and bone metabolism; title: Ch. 7. Estrogens and selective estrogen receptor modulators for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis; title: Ch. 8. Bisphosphonate treatment for osteoporosis; title: Ch. 9. Calcitonin treatment in postmenopausal osteoporosis; title: Ch. 10. Therapy with vitamin D metabolites, sodium fluoride, thiazides, and isoflavones; title: Ch. 11. Orthopedics and the osteoporotic syndrome; title: Ch. 12. Glucocorticoid-related osteoporosis; title: Ch. 13. Osteoporosis and the bone biopsy.