Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis a clinician's guide

The outcome of recent clinical trials in osteoporosis was the impetus for this volume. In these studies of two bisphosphonates, an interaction between bone mineral density (BMD) and the treatment effect was seen, such that these agents appeared to lose their effect as BMD increased. To practitioners...

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Other Authors: Cooper, Cyrus (Editor), Gehlbach, Stephen H. (Editor), Lindsay, Robert 1943- (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: London Taylor & Francis 2005
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