Osteoporosis Treatment : A Clinical Overview
Osteoporosis Treatment : A Clinical Overview
edited by Elaine Dennison
- First edition 2021
- 1 recurso en línea (VIII, 225 páginas) 30 ilustraciones, 24 ilustraciones a color
The epidemiology of fracture: why treatment matters -- The treatment gap -- How to identify those requiring fracture -- The Bone turnover cycle -- Antiresorptive therapies -- Anabolic therapies -- Emerging therapies -- Improving compliance -- Non-pharmacological therapies.
This book provides a practical overview of osteoporosis for the wide spectrum of clinicians that might encounter the osteoporotic patient. Concise and well-structured chapters examine the public health importance of the condition, the current treatment gap, how to identify individuals who would benefit from treatment, bone turnover and how this can be modified by osteoporosis therapies, adjuvant lifestyle modification, the calcium and vitamin D story, antiresorptive therapies, anabolic therapies, emerging therapies, adherence and compliance with therapy and the perception of fracture risk. Osteoporosis Treatment: A Clinical Overview meets the need for a book that improves awareness of this major public health problem and possible therapeutic approaches. Primary care physicians, endocrinologists, rheumatologists, orthopaedic surgeons and those providing specialist care for the elderly will all benefit from this highly accessible and informative guide to treating osteoporosis.
9783030781286
10.1007/978-3-030-78128-6 doi
Osteoporosis--Tratamiento
Osteoporosis--Ejercicios terapéuticos
Terapéutica
RC931.O73 / 2021 EB
The epidemiology of fracture: why treatment matters -- The treatment gap -- How to identify those requiring fracture -- The Bone turnover cycle -- Antiresorptive therapies -- Anabolic therapies -- Emerging therapies -- Improving compliance -- Non-pharmacological therapies.
This book provides a practical overview of osteoporosis for the wide spectrum of clinicians that might encounter the osteoporotic patient. Concise and well-structured chapters examine the public health importance of the condition, the current treatment gap, how to identify individuals who would benefit from treatment, bone turnover and how this can be modified by osteoporosis therapies, adjuvant lifestyle modification, the calcium and vitamin D story, antiresorptive therapies, anabolic therapies, emerging therapies, adherence and compliance with therapy and the perception of fracture risk. Osteoporosis Treatment: A Clinical Overview meets the need for a book that improves awareness of this major public health problem and possible therapeutic approaches. Primary care physicians, endocrinologists, rheumatologists, orthopaedic surgeons and those providing specialist care for the elderly will all benefit from this highly accessible and informative guide to treating osteoporosis.
9783030781286
10.1007/978-3-030-78128-6 doi
Osteoporosis--Tratamiento
Osteoporosis--Ejercicios terapéuticos
Terapéutica
RC931.O73 / 2021 EB