The osteoporosis book [electronic resource] / Nancy E. Lane

Written by Nancy E. Lane, a leading investigator and clinician in the field of osteoporosis. The Osteoporosis Book is an indispensable guide to the exciting medical breakthroughs that have taken place in the past few years - in bone density measurement, in oestrogen therapy, in bisphosphonate therapy, and in our knowledge of the bone cycle - that now allow all doctors to predict who is at risk and to monitor these individuals in their fifties, before a fracture occurs. Readers learn to evaluate - and whenever possible, eliminate - the risk factors in their own lives.