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Orthogeriatric and Fragility Fracture Nursing: An Introduction
Caring for people following a fragility fracture is often a complex, medium- to long-term undertaking with several phases from acute care through to rehabilitation and secondary fracture prevention. Fragility ...
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Frailty and Sarcopenia
Ageing, frailty, sarcopenia, falls, and fragility fractures are strongly linked and are predictors of reduction in physical function, hospitalisation, and negative outcomes for older people following fragility...
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Secondary Fracture Prevention
Fragility fractures signal that osteoporosis or osteopenia may be present. These are fractures often sustained through minimal trauma and commonly happen because of a fall from standing height or less. Low bon...
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Osteoporosis and the Nature of Fragility Fracture: An Overview
Osteoporosis is a common, chronic, systemic skeletal disease that is characterised by low bone mass and deterioration of the microarchitecture of bone tissue, with a consequent increase in bone fragility and r...
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Interdisciplinary management of FGF23-related phosphate wasting syndromes: a Consensus Statement on the evaluation, diagnosis and care of patients with X-linked hypophosphataemia
X-linked hypophosphataemia (XLH) is the most frequent cause of hypophosphataemia-associated rickets of genetic origin and is associated with high levels of the phosphaturic hormone fibroblast growth factor 23 ...
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Correction to: Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its predictors in the Portuguese population: a nationwide population-based study
The original version of this article, published on 02 March 2020, unfortunately contained an error on “Fig. 3 Prevalence of Vitamin D Levels by NUTSII.”
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Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its predictors in the Portuguese population: a nationwide population-based study
Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent worldwide, but its prevalence is unknown in adult Portuguese population. In Portugal, 66% of adults present Vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency. Winter, living in Azores, older...
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Cost-Effectiveness of Intervention Thresholds for the Treatment of Osteoporosis Based on FRAX® in Portugal
Cost-effective intervention thresholds (ITs) based on FRAX® were determined for Portugal. Assuming a willingness to pay (WTP) of €32,000 per quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), treatment with generic alendronate...
