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Bone Density Concerns: Guidance on Tackling Fracture Risk in CKD

July 7, 2020 • By Thomas R. Collins

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“CKD is not only a state of high PTH levels, but also a state of low PTH response,” he said. “It’s always the balance between [these states] that will, in the end, determine the bone phenotype—normal bone turnover, high or low bone turnover.”

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References

  1. Moe SM, Nickolas T. Fractures in patients with CKD: Time for action. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Nov 7;11(11):1929–1931.
  2. Iimori S, Mori Y, Akita W, et al. Diagnostic usefulness of bone mineral density and biochemical markers of bone turnover in predicting fracture in CKD stage 5D patients—A single-center cohort study. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2012 Jan;27(1):345–351.

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Filed Under: Conditions Tagged With: bone mineral density (BMD), chronic kidney disease, EULAR, fracture risk, Fractures, kidney, Osteoporosis, osteoporosis treatmentsIssue: August 2020

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