Osteoporosis

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About the Book Osteoporosis is by far the most common metabolic bone disease and one of the most difficult to treat. Because of the extended onset of the disease research has been slow; the role of steroids in the prevention and treatment of the disorder in post-menopausal women has alsó generated a degree of controversy.^ 1 ^PfJl This book bríngs together somé of the major areas where research has been advancing more rapidly in the study of the epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment of osteoporosis. Topics covered include bone mass throughout life, cellular mechanisms of bone resorption and formation, the action of oestrogen on bone, steroid osteoporosis and the management of osteoporosis. This volume will be of value to clinicians not only directly involved in rheumatology and orthopaedics but alsó in other

MR. M Francis, MB, ChB, MRCP, graduated from the University of Leeds Medical School in 1975. After undertaking postgraduate training in General Medicine he was... Tovább

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About the Book Osteoporosis is by far the most common metabolic bone disease and one of the most difficult to treat. Because of the extended onset of the disease research has been slow; the role of steroids in the prevention and treatment of the disorder in post-menopausal women has alsó generated a degree of controversy.^ 1 ^PfJl This book bríngs together somé of the major areas where research has been advancing more rapidly in the study of the epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment of osteoporosis. Topics covered include bone mass throughout life, cellular mechanisms of bone resorption and formation, the action of oestrogen on bone, steroid osteoporosis and the management of osteoporosis. This volume will be of value to clinicians not only directly involved in rheumatology and orthopaedics but alsó in other

MR. M Francis, MB, ChB, MRCP, graduated from the University of Leeds Medical School in 1975. After undertaking postgraduate training in General Medicine he was appointeji ^the Clinical Scientific Staff at the MRC Mineral Metabolism Unit in Leeds, where he developed a clinical and research interest in metabolic bone disease. He subsequently spent a year in the Division of Bone and Mineral Metabolism at the Jewish Hospitál, St Louis, USA before training in Geriatric Medicine at University College Hospitál, London. He is now Senior Lecturer in Medicine (Geriatrics) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Consultant Physician at Newcastle General Hospitál, where hé continues his research into osteoporosis and runs the Menopause and Bone Clinics^P Vissza