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Assessment of Bone Microarchitecture in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Comparison of 2D Bone Texture Analysis and High-Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography at the Radius and Tibia
Bone microarchitecture can be studied noninvasively using high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT). However, this technique is not widely available, so more simple techniques may b...
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Cortical Fractal Analysis and Collagen Crosslinks Content in Femoral Neck After Osteoporotic Fracture in Postmenopausal Women: Comparison with Osteoarthritis
The femoral neck (FN) has been previously characterized by thinner cortices in osteoporotic fracture (HF) when compared to hip osteoarthritis (HOA). The purposes of this study were to complete the previous inv...
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The C-Terminal Intact Forms of Periostin (iPTN) Are Surrogate Markers for Osteolytic Lesions in Experimental Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis
Periostin is an extracellular matrix protein that actively contributes to tumor progression and metastasis. Here, we hypothesized that it could be a marker of bone metastasis formation. To address this questio...
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Spatial Distribution of Microcracks in Osteoarthritic Femoral Neck: Influence of Osteophytes on Microcrack Formation
Osteophytes have been suggested to influence the bone mechanical properties. The aim of this study was to compare the microcrack density in osteophytes with that in the other parts of the osteoarthritic femora...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Is There Enough Evidence for Osteosarcopenic Obesity as a Distinct Entity? A Critical Literature Review
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in one of the co-author's name. The co-author Cyrus Cooper's degree “FMedSci” was incorrectly tagged as family name. This has been correct...
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Open AccessIs There Enough Evidence for Osteosarcopenic Obesity as a Distinct Entity? A Critical Literature Review
The co-existence of impaired bone health (osteopenia/osteoporosis), reduced muscle mass and strength (sarcopenia), and increased adiposity (obesity) in middle-aged and older people has been identified in recen...
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Where Two Common Conditions of Aging Meet: Osteoarthritis and Sarcopenia
Osteoarthritis and sarcopenia are the most frequently described musculoskeletal disorders in older persons but the intertwining of these conditions and of their functional and cellular causes is complex. This ...
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Risk Factors for the Incident Decline of Physical Performance in Older Men: The Prospective Strambo Study
Risk factors of physical performance decline in older men remain uncertain. We assessed risk factors of incident physical performance deterioration in older men followed up prospectively. In a cohort of 821 me...
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Spondyloarthritis and Sarcopenia: Prevalence of Probable Sarcopenia and its Impact on Disease Burden: The Saspar Study
To evaluate the prevalence of probable, confirmed, and severe sarcopenia in spondyloarthritis (SpA), according to the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2019 (EWGSOP2) definition. A total of 103...