Osteoporosis
By: guest editor, Philip N. Sambrook.
Contributors: Sambrook, Philip.
Series: Rheumatic disease clinics of North America -- v. 32, no. 4
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 780
ISBN-13: 9781416039044
Subjects: Osteoporosis.
Notes: "November 2006."

Series title on spine: Rheumatic disease clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Epidemiology of osteoporosis / Elaine Dennison, Maysam Abdin Mohamed, and Cyrus Cooper; value: Epidemiology of osteoporosis in rheumatic diseases / Luigi Sinigaglia ... [et al.]; value: Genetics and osteoporosis / Omar M.E. Albagha and Stuart H. Ralston; value: Recommendations for measurement of bone mineral density and identifying persons to be treated for osteoporosis / Marc C. Hochberg; value: Emerging issues with bisphosphonates / Ian R. Reid; value: Parathyroid hormone update / Kendal L. Hamann and Nancy E. Lane; value: Adherence to medications for the treatment of osteoporosis / Stuart Silverman; value: Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis: mechanisms and therapeutic approach / Jean-Pierre Devogelaer; value: Inflammation-induced bone loss: can it be prevented? / Evange Romas and Matthew T. Gillespie.