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- Part 1 Principles of international endocrine practice
- Part 2 Pituitary and hypothalamic diseases
- Part 3 The thyroid
- Part 4 Parathyroid, calcium, and bone metabolism
- 4.1 Parathyroid anatomy, hormone synthesis, secretion, action, and receptors
- 4.2Hypercalcaemia
- 4.3 Primary hyperparathyroidism
- 4.4 Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia
- 4.5 Hypocalcaemic disorders, hypoparathyroidism, and pseudohypoparathyroidism
- 4.6 Hypercalcaemic and hypocalcaemic syndromes in children
- 4.7 Osteoporosis
- 4.8 Thyroid disorders and bone disease
- 4.9 Paget’s disease of bone
- 4.10 Rickets and osteomalacia (acquired and heritable forms) and skeletal dysplasias
- 4.11 Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
- Part 5 The adrenal gland and endocrine hypertension
- Part 6 Neuroendocrine tumours and genetic disorders
- Part 7 Growth and development during childhood
- Part 8 Female endocrinology and pregnancy
- Part 9 Male hypogonadism and infertility
- Part 10 Endocrinology of ageing and systemic disease
- Part 11 Endocrinology of cancer
- Part 12 Obesity, lipids, and metabolic disorders
- Part 13 Diabetes mellitus
(p. 701) Osteoporosis
(p. 701)
Osteoporosis
- Chapter:
- (p. 701) Osteoporosis
- Author(s):
Richard Eastell
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199235292.003.0453
Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, the USA, and Japan combined (1). It is a preventable and a treatable condition, yet many patients with fractures remain unrecognized and untreated.
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- Part 1 Principles of international endocrine practice
- Part 2 Pituitary and hypothalamic diseases
- Part 3 The thyroid
- Part 4 Parathyroid, calcium, and bone metabolism
- 4.1 Parathyroid anatomy, hormone synthesis, secretion, action, and receptors
- 4.2Hypercalcaemia
- 4.3 Primary hyperparathyroidism
- 4.4 Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia
- 4.5 Hypocalcaemic disorders, hypoparathyroidism, and pseudohypoparathyroidism
- 4.6 Hypercalcaemic and hypocalcaemic syndromes in children
- 4.7 Osteoporosis
- 4.8 Thyroid disorders and bone disease
- 4.9 Paget’s disease of bone
- 4.10 Rickets and osteomalacia (acquired and heritable forms) and skeletal dysplasias
- 4.11 Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
- Part 5 The adrenal gland and endocrine hypertension
- Part 6 Neuroendocrine tumours and genetic disorders
- Part 7 Growth and development during childhood
- Part 8 Female endocrinology and pregnancy
- Part 9 Male hypogonadism and infertility
- Part 10 Endocrinology of ageing and systemic disease
- Part 11 Endocrinology of cancer
- Part 12 Obesity, lipids, and metabolic disorders
- Part 13 Diabetes mellitus
