Osteoporosis in older persons
Subtitle: pathophysiology and therapeutic approach
By: Gustavo Duque, Douglas P. Kiel, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781848829244
Subjects: Pathophysiology; Osteoporosis; Treatment; Diseases; Older people
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biology of bone / Paul C. Schiller, Gianluca D'Ippolito and Guy A. Howard; title: Aging and bone / Jeffrey M. Gimble ... [et al.]; title: Calciotropic hormones / E. Paul Cherniack and Bruce R. Troen; title: Sex steroids and aging bone / Jane A. Cauley; title: Animal models for senile osteoporosis / Ken Watanabe; title: Senile osteoporosis as a geriatric syndrome / Rujuta H. Patel and Kenneth W. Lyles; title: Genetics of osteoporosis in older age / David Karasik and Douglas P. Kiel; title: Fracture epidemiology among individuals 75+ / Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari; title: Falls as a geriatric syndrome : how to prevent them? how to treat them? / Manuel Montero-Odasso; title: Non-pharmacological treatments for falls and fractures / Stephen R. Lord, Jacqueline C.T. Close and Catherine Sherrington; title: Medical treatment of age-related osteoporosis: present and future / Steven Boonen; title: Treatment of osteoporosis in long-term care / Gustavo Duque and Louise Mallet; title: Fracture care in the elderly / Christopher M. Bono and Timothy Bhattacharyya.