Once again, soy is shown to create small changes but does not effectively address the actual issue of enhancing bone fracture resistance or preventing osteoporosis (free signup required to read)
This study finds no useful effects on bone density with soy, but the population is small, 14-years post-meno, and had a higher proportion of smokers in the soy group than the control. (free signup required to read)
Good and detailed article sponsored by the manufacturer of this hrt. Also contains excellent review of hormone physiology. (free signup required to read)
women who underwent a bilateral oophorectomy before menopause had close to a 2-fold increased risk for not only dementia but also parkinsonism, compared with those who did not have the surgery. The risk was also greater among those who had their ovaries removed and who stopped taking estrogen therapy before the age of 50 years. Women who underwent the procedure but who received estrogen-replacement therapy (ERT) until at least the age of 50 years returned to normal risk (free signup required to read)
details a soon-to-be-approved drug using a different mechanism from the bisphosphonates, but this also reads as though it were written by the pharmaceutical company (free signup required to read)
This describes a potential correlation with no (yet) established causation. Women with atrial fib thinking of using a bisphosphonate or who develop atrial fib while using one should take this information to their cardiologist.
http://www.drugs.com/fda/update-early-communication-bisphosphonates-marketed-alendronate-fosamax-fosamax-plus-d-etidrona...
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"we conclude that even in sunny climates the addition of vitamin D to high-dose calcium alone has long-term beneficial effects on bone density and turnover"
"for patients not on estrogen/bisphosphonate - total calcium intake (diet and tablet) 2000 mg per day and vitamin D2 or D3 1000 U per day (and) for patients on estrogen/bisphosphonate - total calcium intake (diet and tablet) 1000 mg per day and vitamin D2 or D3 1000 U per day." (free signup required to read)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17050889?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_R...
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Excellent evaluation by National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health and North American Menopause Society presenters (funded by Wyeth) looking at risks of using hrt (free signup required to read)
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2007-11-02T182608Z_01_COL266281_RTRUKOC_0_US-BONE...
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2007-10-19T190316Z_01_COL968533_RTRUKOC_0_US-CALC...
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Anecdotal reports of responses to Fosamax, a bisphosphonate. Remember, though, that such sites capture only the negative and the positives tend to be unrepresented.
the risk of ONJ associated with oral bisphosphonate therapy for osteoporosis appears to be low, estimated between 1 in 10,000 and less than 1 in 100,000 patient-treatment years.
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