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Your Questions Answered
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By
John Fordham, MD, BSc, FRCP, Consultant Rheumatologist, Department of Rheumatology, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK
Included in series
Your Questions Answered,
Description
Osteoporosis is very common, affecting approximately one in three women and one in ten men over the age of 50. Although there is no cure,
lifestyle modification and drug therapy can slow or stop the progress of osteoporosis, and so there is a real need for up-to-date, appropriate
information to help the primary care practitioner diagnose and manage the condition effectively, and to address patients' queries and
concerns. This book, written in the popular Q and A format of the Your Questions Answered series by a renowned osteoporosis specialist,
will provide the information needed by GPs and other practitioners to be able to understand and treat patients with osteoporosis. Answers
are presented in a succinct, accessible style, with emphasis on evidence-based, up-to-date knowledge.
Audience
The Your Questions Answered books are designed for general practitioners and other health practitioners (including nurses), providing front line care.
Contents
- Definitions: what is osteoporosis?.
- Epidemiology: how common is osteoporosis?.
- Bone physiology and pathophysiology
in osteoporosis .
- How to detect and diagnose osteoporosis.
- Use of bone densitometry and other techniques in the diagnosis
and management of osteoporosis .
- Health economics in osteoporosis .
- The prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.
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Management of osteoporosis in special groups .
- The aetiology and management of pain in osteoporosis .
- The aetiology
and management of falls .
- Future developments .
- Appendix 1: List of useful addresses and websites.
- Appendix
2: drugs used to treat osteoporosis.
- References.
- Glossary of acronyms.
- List of Patient Questions.
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Index.
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Paperback, 240 pages, publication date: NOV-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07366-3
ISBN-10: 0-443-07366-X
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 30 Oct 2009
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