AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Postmenopausal women with Down syndrome may experience greater bone loss.
2003 FEB 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medication, inactivity, and other factors may contribute to heightened bone loss in women with Down syndrome who have experienced menopause.
According to recent research from the United States, "this 1 year study of 23 women examined osteoporosis in postmenopausal women with Down syndrome. The participants had their bone mineral density measured in three sites (lumbar spine, hip and forearm) using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. Each participant also completed a medical history self-report questionnaire."
"The findings indicate that the women tended to be inactive and they frequently had coexistent conditions (i.e., thyroid disease and seizure disorders) whose treatments may contribute to a reduction in bone mineral density," stated S. Milberger and colleagues, Wayne State University, Developmental Disabilities Institute.
"The results from the bone scans revealed Z-scores that were strikingly different from what would be expected in women in the U.S. general population of the same age and ethnicity. Corresponding to the ...
- Ontario Closes Institutions For People With A Developmental Disability.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 31, 2009 700+ words
...institutions for people with a developmental disability are closing their doors...living for people with a developmental disability. Since 2004, nearly 1,000 people with a developmental disability have moved from these last...
- More Independence And Choice For People With A Developmental Disability.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire September 30, 2008 700+ words
...Government Helps People With A Developmental Disability Succeed TORONTO , Sept. 30...today that will help people with a developmental disability get the right mix of services...institutions. For people with a developmental disability and their families, it means...
- Therap Services Continues to Hire Experienced Developmental Disability Industry...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 4, 2007 700+ words
...line applications focused on the developmental disability community, has appointed Maureen...Specialists. The two experienced developmental disability industry clinicians will provide...10 years of experience in the developmental disability community. Maureen was an Employment...
- Hooray for Hollywood ...: new feature film Pumpkin confronts sexuality and...
- Magazine article from: The Exceptional Parent Blacher, Jan May 1, 2002 700+ words
...about time the young man with a developmental disability gets the girl! So it plays...didactic. It does not portray developmental disability as a huge obstacle to be overcome...dark comedy in which Pumpkin's developmental disability--and how people treat him because...
- Grant project will seek to link addiction, DD services.(developmental...
- Newspaper article from: Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly October 2, 2006 700+ words
...abuse problems, the presence of a developmental disability (DD) such as mental retardation...what commonly falls under the developmental disability category, says NAADD director...treatment program sees someone with a developmental disability, the response is, 'Sorry...
- Ethical Dilemmas: Sexuality and Developmental Disability.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Archives of Sexual Behavior Lunsky, Yona August 1, 2005 700+ words
...Dilemmas: Sexuality and Developmental Disability. Edited by Dorothy...explain, sexuality and developmental disability requires finding...the person with the developmental disability and protection of...
- Dealing with sexual abuse of adults with a developmental disability who also...
- Magazine article from: The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality Burke, Lillian Bedard, Cheryl Ludwig, Susan March 22, 1998 700+ words
Key words: Developmental disability Sexual abuse Impaired...an individual with a developmental disability, and particularly in...abuse of someone with a developmental disability (Sgroi, 1989), or...
- County government and local authorities partner with federal and state partners...
- Newspaper article from: Mental Health Weekly Staats, Melissa M. December 4, 2006 700+ words
...of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHD) understand...community behavioral health and developmental disability systems into public policy development...the only behavioral health and developmental disability affiliate of the National Association...
- Hope for tomorrow: with 24,000 cases of autism diagnosed each year, insurers...
- Magazine article from: Best's Review Chordas, Lori November 1, 2008 700+ words
...Growing Need Autism is a neurobiological developmental disability that affects normal brain development in...aren't met for a specific disorder). "Developmental disability specialists say 'if you know one autistic...
- Core Curriculum for Specializing in Intellectual and Developmental Disability:...
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News June 1, 2005 700+ words
RC570 2004-021974 0-7637-4765-3 Core curriculum for specializing in intellectual and developmental disability; a resource for nurses and other health care professionals. Title main entry. Ed. by Wendy M. Nehring. Jones & Bartlett...
Source: HighBeam Research, Postmenopausal women with Down syndrome may experience greater bone...