With forces vying for bone destruction and for bone creation, the healthy outcome is a draw between the two—but that often doesn’t happen in those with arthritic conditions.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—New and potentially vital insights into the factors that lead to bone erosion and formation could point the way to new treatments for the terrible effects that arthritic conditions can have on bone, an expert on the subject said during the Rheumatology Research Foundation’s Oscar S. Gluck, MD, Memorial Lectureship, “Bone Wasn’t Built in a Day,” at the 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, held November 9–14.
With forces vying for bone destruction and for bone creation, the healthy outcome is a draw between the two—but that often doesn’t happen in those with arthritic conditions, said Ellen Gravallese, MD, professor of medicine and cell biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Boston.