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Drug Therapy

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Osteoporosis

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Abstract

Previous chapters have reviewed the importance of lifestyle changes, adequacy of calcium and vitamin D stores, and the use of hormone replacement therapy for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. The recent burgeoning interest in osteoporosis stems not only from an increased awareness of women’s health issues and the important effects of lifestyle on health, but also from the related explosion of knowledge about the pathophysiology of osteoporosis. This has been the result of advances in basic science, new noninvasive techniques for measuring bone turnover and bone density, and the development of many new promising drugs for the prevention and treatment of bone loss (1-4).

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Stock, J.L. (1996). Drug Therapy. In: Rosen, C.J. (eds) Osteoporosis. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0221-9_15

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