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Postmenopausal women: small BMD gains still lower fracture risk.(Gynecology)
ORLANDO, FLA. -- Postmenopausal women don't require a big boost in their bone mineral density to cut their fracture risk. Any gain is fine.
"The relationship between increase in bone mineral density [BMD] and reduction in fractures is nonlinear," Dr. Jonathan D. Adachi said in presenting a poster at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology.
"The magnitude of change in BMD does not correlate with the drop in fracture risk." And the impact of treatment on a patient's fracture risk can't be predicted by the size of the treatment's effect on BMD, said Dr. Adachi, director of the Arthritis Centre at St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, Ont.
He based ...
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