- ►adisonline.com [PDF] RG Cumming - Drugs &# 38; Aging, 1998 - ingentaconnect.com Summary About 30% of people aged over 65 years living in the community fall at
least once a year; the fall rate is even higher in nursing homes. Many of these
falls lead to fractures, the most serious type being hip fractures. Whether ... Cited by 178 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] ES Orwoll, DC Bauer, TM Vogt, KM Fox - Annals of internal medicine, 1996 - Am Coll Physicians O steoporotic fractures are a major cause of ill- ness and death in older women
(1). Fractures of the proximal femur and spine are most common, and they
increase exponentially in incidence in the later years of life (2). The ... Cited by 171 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
NE Lane, B Lukert - Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 1998 - Elsevier Glucocorticoids are widely used in the treatment of patients with chronic
noninfectious inflammatory diseases, especially asthma, chronic lung disease,
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- ►warwick.ac.uk [PDF] FP Cappuccio, E Meilahn, JM Zmuda, JA … - The Lancet, 1999 - Elsevier After adjustment for age, initial bone-mineral density, weight and weight
change, smoking, and regular use of hormone-replacement therapy, the rate of
bone loss at the femoral neck increased with blood pressure at baseline. In ... Cited by 101 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] AZ LaCroix, SM Ott, L Ichikawa, D Scholes, … - Annals of internal medicine, 2000 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Thiazide may have beneficial effects on bone min- eral density and
may reduce risk for hip fracture. However, the existence of a causal role
remains uncertain because experimental evidence is limited. Objective: To ... Cited by 99 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
IR Reid, RW Ames, BJ Orr-Walker, JM … - The American journal of medicine, 2000 - Elsevier RESULTS: One hundred eighty-five women entered the study, of whom 138 completed
2 years of follow-up. In an intention-to-treat analysis, hydrochlorothiazide
produced significant benefits on bone mineral density of the total body ... Cited by 99 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
JA Grisso, JL Kelsey, BL Strom, LA O'Brien, … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1994 - content.nejm.org Results When the case patients were compared with the control subjects from the
community, the women in the lowest quintile for body-mass index had a markedly
increased risk of hip fracture as compared with the women in the highest ... Cited by 93 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org [PDF] Z Guo, P Wills, M Viitanen, J Fastbom, B … - American journal of epidemiology, 1998 - Oxford Univ Press The authors examined the effects of cognitive function, as assessed by the
Mini-Mental State Examination, and drug use on the incidence of hip fracture in
a community-based Swedish population of 1,608 subjects who were aged >75 ... Cited by 90 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
IR Reid, RW Ames, MC Evans, SJ Sharpe, … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1994 - Endocrine Soc Page 1. 0021-972x/94/7904-os50$03.M)/0 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
Copyright 0 1994 by The Endocrine Society Vol. 79, No. 4 Printed in USA ... Cited by 85 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
JA Langlois, T Harris, AC Looker, J Madans - Archives of Internal Medicine, 1996 - archinte.highwire.org Page 1. Weight Change Between Age 50 Years and Old Age Is Associated With
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