Bone Abstracts

Background: In the National Osteoporosis Guide 2014 all the patients are first recommended adequate calcium and vitamin D intake. For additional treatment US FDA approves the use of medications within seven different drug groups, but no magnesium. We have therefore studied the beneficial effect of Mg added to a Ca/vitamin D regime.Study: Fifty healthy women aged above 70 years recruited from elderly center were randomized into a Mg supplementation group ...

Objective: To determine the relationship between maternal and child bone density in a cohort of mothers and their children with and without rickets.Methods: Using a case-control design without matching, areal forearm bone mineral density (aBMD) was measured in 52 and 135 Nigerian children with and without rickets, respectively, and their mothers. The metaphyseal site was located at the site of minimal bone density of the distal radius and ulna. The diaph...

Objectives: Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a hereditary disorder effecting approximately 1 in 20 000 births. Symptoms include; low bone mass, recurrent fractures, varying degrees of short stature and deformity. There is currently no disease specific quality of life (QoL) measure for children with OI. This study used a mixed methods approach to develop a QoL measure for the paediatric OI population. Patient reported outcome measure development is an iterative process, moving b...

Objectives: Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a group of rare genetic disorders characterized by osteoporosis, predisposition to fracture, and scoliosis. Recently, however, there has been increased focus on pulmonary insufficiency, as it is the leading cause of mortality in individuals with OI. The primary objective of this study is to determine if reduced pulmonary function in individuals with OI is intrinsic to the underlying connective tissue disorder. Another goal of this st...

Biographical DetailsCatherine M Gordon, MD, MSc is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is Director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. She is board-certified in adolescent medicine and pediatric endocrinology. She is on the Board of Directors for the International Society for Clinical Densitometry, and direc...

Biographical DetailsS Schmidt graduated with a medical degree from the University of Rostock (Germany) in 1996 and received her pediatric training in Germany, Norway and Sweden. Already during this time she became interested in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease and bone mineral density. After residency, she worked as a pediatric gastroenterologist in the region of Gothenburg (Sweden) a...

Biographical DetailsS Bechtold-Dalla Pozza is a Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist working at the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology of the Dr von Haunersches Kinderspital, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. She completed her pediatric training at the department of Pediatrics at the University Children’s Hospital, Munich, following a clinical and research fell...

Biographical DetailsM van den Heuvel-Eibrink is Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Erasmus MC/Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She began her medical career with an MD from the University of Utrecht and following a number of years of clinical work in the pediatric oncology field completed her PhD in Rotterdam in 2001. Since 2009 Dr M van den Heuvel...

Biographical DetailsDr Brendan Lee is the Robert and Janice McNair Endowed Chair in Molecular and Human Genetics, Professor and Interim Chairman of the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr B Lee co-directs the joint MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Bone Disease Program of Texas, and the Baylor Co...

Biographical DetailsDr Nick Shaw is a Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He developed an interest in paediatric calcium and bone metabolism whilst a Lecturer at the University of Leeds in 1985 and subsequently as a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He completed his endoc...