{"title":"Author response to: OSIN-D-24-01894 comment on \"Osteoporosis in older patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus\".","authors":"Mehmet Selman Ontan, Ahmet Turan Isik","doi":"10.1007/s00198-025-07387-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07387-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143399686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on \"Osteoporosis in older patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus\".","authors":"Shengyang Mo, Yanzhong Gu","doi":"10.1007/s00198-025-07416-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07416-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143391429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Berkay Yalçınkaya, Hilmi Berkan Abacıoğlu, Ahmet Furkan Çolak, Alp Çetin
{"title":"Rethinking sunlight: balancing the benefits of sun exposure and vitamin D supplementation.","authors":"Berkay Yalçınkaya, Hilmi Berkan Abacıoğlu, Ahmet Furkan Çolak, Alp Çetin","doi":"10.1007/s00198-025-07420-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07420-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tomi Nissinen, Reijo Sund, Sanna Suoranta, Heikki Kröger, Sami P Väänänen
{"title":"Identifying proximal humerus fractures: an algorithmic approach using registers and radiological visit data.","authors":"Tomi Nissinen, Reijo Sund, Sanna Suoranta, Heikki Kröger, Sami P Väänänen","doi":"10.1007/s00198-025-07414-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07414-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we show that combining register and radiological visit data enables more accurate automated identification of proximal humerus fractures compared to traditional register analysis. In a cohort of 11,863 post-menopausal women, our proposed approach improved the coverage of identified fractures from 74 to 81%.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The aim of this study was to investigate how reliably proximal humerus fractures can be identified from different administrative datasets without manual review.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using the national medical registers, namely the Care Register for Health Care and the Register for Primary Health Care Visits, as well as the regional radiological image archive PACS, we developed algorithms for automated identification of proximal humerus fractures. In addition to these sources, we used data from patient records as well as from the self-reports gathered by the Kuopio Osteoporosis Risk Factor and Prevention Study (OSTPRE) to establish a gold standard of fractures for validating the algorithms. This gold standard included proximal humerus fractures for a cohort of 11,863 post-menopausal women living in the Kuopio region between 2004 and 2022.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We report the national registers' yearly accuracy in identifying proximal humerus fractures. During the studied 19-year period, the registers' coverage initially improved but then settled at 75%. We show that the image archive provides almost complete coverage of radiographs for the fracture cases, but excluding false positives poses a challenge. In addition, we propose a simple approach that combines register and radiography visit data to improve the accuracy of automated fracture identification. Our algorithm improves the coverage from 74 to 81% and reduces the false discovery rate from 8 to 7% compared to the traditional register analysis.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The proposed approach enables a more reliable way of identifying proximal humerus fractures from administrative data. This study contributes to the objective of automatically tracking all types of fragility fractures in large datasets.</p>","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J D Patiño-Salazar, D Ovejero, M Gabernet, N Martínez-Gil, E Alcaide-Consuegra, L Mellibovsky, X Nogués, D Grinberg, S Balcells, R Rabionet, N Garcia-Giralt
{"title":"Identifying rare variants in genes related to bone phenotypes in a cohort of postmenopausal women.","authors":"J D Patiño-Salazar, D Ovejero, M Gabernet, N Martínez-Gil, E Alcaide-Consuegra, L Mellibovsky, X Nogués, D Grinberg, S Balcells, R Rabionet, N Garcia-Giralt","doi":"10.1007/s00198-025-07413-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07413-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rare genetic variants in genes previously described to be involved in bone monogenic disorders were identified in postmenopausal women split into two groups according to extreme bone mineral density (BMD) values and lumbar spine Z-scores. A pathogenic variant in COL1A2 gene found in a woman with low BMD highlights the overlap between osteogenesis imperfecta and osteoporosis, which may share their genetic etiology. Other variants were not clearly associated with the extreme BMD, suggesting that there is little contribution of rare variants to postmenopausal osteoporosis.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>We aimed to evaluate whether extreme values of bone mineral density (BMD) in a population-based cohort of postmenopausal women (BARCOS) could be determined by rare genetic variants in genes related to monogenic bone disorders.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A panel of 127 genes related to different skeletal phenotypes was designed. Massive sequencing by targeted capture of these genes was performed in 104 DNA samples from those women of the BARCOS cohort that exhibited the highest (HZ group) and lowest (LZ group) LS Z-scores, ranging from + 0.70 to + 3.80 and from - 2.35 to - 4.26, respectively. 5'UTR, 3'UTR, splice region, missense, nonsense, and short indel variants with MAF < 0.01 were annotated with CADD version 1.6 and considered in the analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After filtering those variants with CADD > 25 and present only in one of the groups (either LZ or HZ), six variants were detected, most of which (5/6) were in the LZ group in TCIRG1, COL1A2, SEC24D, LRP4, and ANO5 genes, while only one, in the LMNA gene, was in the HZ group. According to the ClinVar database, the COL1A2 variant, causative of a recessive form of osteogenesis imperfecta, is described as pathogenic, while the other variants are considered of uncertain significance (VUS).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The variant identified in COL1A2 in a woman from the LZ group highlights the genetic overlap between monogenic diseases such as osteogenesis imperfecta and complex diseases like osteoporosis. However, the other variants were not clearly associated with the extreme BMD, suggesting that there is little contribution of rare variants to postmenopausal osteoporosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joan C Lo, Malini Chandra, Mehreen M Khan, Joshua Barzilay, Laura D Carbone, Susan M Ott, Robert A Adler, John T Schousboe, Elisha A Garcia, Deborah Low, Rita L Hui
{"title":"Changing trends in bisphosphonate therapy: a twenty-five-year surveillance in a single US integrated healthcare system.","authors":"Joan C Lo, Malini Chandra, Mehreen M Khan, Joshua Barzilay, Laura D Carbone, Susan M Ott, Robert A Adler, John T Schousboe, Elisha A Garcia, Deborah Low, Rita L Hui","doi":"10.1007/s00198-024-07372-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-024-07372-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a single, large integrated US healthcare system, bisphosphonate treatment initiation for fracture prevention among older adults shifted towards higher-risk populations over a 25-year time period (1998-2022). The temporal trends among women and men who initiated treatment reflected changing practice patterns and both primary and secondary fracture prevention efforts.</p><p><strong>Introduction: </strong>While bisphosphonate (BP) drugs remain first-line for fracture prevention, treatment has changed over time. This study examines trends over 25 years among adults initiating BP in a single healthcare system.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Among adults aged 50-89 years who initiated alendronate, risedronate, ibandronate, or zoledronate in Kaiser Permanente Northern California during 1998-2022, age, sex, race and ethnicity, and fracture history were examined. Findings across 5-year periods were evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 212,289 adults (86.0% women) initiated BP during 1998-2022. After 2008, a much lower proportion of adults who initiated BP were age < 65 years. Across successive 5-year periods, the percentages of women who were age < 65 years were 35.1%, 35.2%, 24.1%, 18.8%, and 17.8%. Among men, these percentages were 26.9%, 25.4%, 17.6%, 12.6%, and 4.7%. In later years, sustained or increasing numbers of adults initiating BP coincided with electronic health record targets for BMD screening (since 2016 for women, 2017-2019 for men), an impact greater for men. The proportions with prior fracture among women initiating BP increased from 21-24% (1998-2007) to 35-38% (2008-2022) after implementing a secondary fracture prevention program for women in 2008. Among men, this proportion increased from 28 to 37%, 40%, and 47% during successive 5-year periods in 1998-2017 (the secondary fracture prevention program for men began in 2015) but fell to 26% in 2018-2022 after BMD screening targeted older men.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In a large primary care population of adults initiating BP, greater treatment of older adults and those with prior fracture highlights the key role of targeted fracture prevention initiatives, sustaining treatment efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia V E Wolf, Daniel Schoene, Matthias Kohl, Wolfgang Kemmler, Eva Kiesswetter
{"title":"Effects of combined protein and exercise interventions on bone health in middle-aged and older adults - A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.","authors":"Julia V E Wolf, Daniel Schoene, Matthias Kohl, Wolfgang Kemmler, Eva Kiesswetter","doi":"10.1007/s00198-025-07393-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07393-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Osteoporosis has become a global public health concern making prevention and treatment essential to reduce severe consequences for individuals and health systems. This systematic review with meta-analysis aimed to determine the effects of combined protein and exercise interventions compared to (a) exercise alone and (b) protein alone on bone mineral content (BMC) or density (BMD) in middle-aged and older adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We systematically searched Medline, CINAHL, CENTRAL, Web of Science, and SPORTDiscus until 24th January 2023. Pairwise random-effects meta-analyses were performed to calculate weighted mean differences (WMD) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). We evaluated risk of bias (Cochrane RoB2) and certainty of evidence (CoE; GRADE). If pooling was not possible, the results were summarized descriptively.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For the comparison of combined protein supplementation and exercise vs. exercise alone, no meta-analysis for BMD (2 RCTs) was possible. For BMC, little to no intervention effect was found (WMD 0.03 kg; 95% CI - 0.00 to 0.05; 4 RCTs; IG = 97/CG = 98; I<sup>2</sup> = 58.4%). In a sensitivity analysis, restricted to combined milk-protein supplementation and exercise, the result remained similar (0.01 kg; 95% CI - 0.01 to 0.03; 4 RCTs; IG = 71/CG = 71; I<sup>2</sup> = 0.0%; low CoE). For the comparison of combined protein and exercise interventions vs. protein alone, no RCT on BMC was identified; the results on total or regional BMD (2 RCTs) were inconclusive.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Based on our findings, no robust conclusions can be drawn on whether combining protein and exercise interventions is more beneficial for bone health than one component alone. Sufficiently powered studies with longer duration are required to clarify these questions (CRD42022334026).</p>","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Massimo Varenna, Francesca Zucchi, Raffaele Di Taranto, Francesco Orsini, Chiara Crotti
{"title":"Osteoclast in CRPS: an alleged guilty fully acquitted.","authors":"Massimo Varenna, Francesca Zucchi, Raffaele Di Taranto, Francesco Orsini, Chiara Crotti","doi":"10.1007/s00198-025-07415-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07415-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contrary to popular belief, a recent study did not show increased osteoclastic activity in acute complex regional pain syndrome. Conversely, osteoblastic activity seems to be enhanced. The real meaning of diagnostic tools needs to be reassessed. Therefore, bisphosphonates act through mechanisms of action different from their anti-osteoclastic effect.</p><p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Bone tissue involvement is a widely acknowledged event in the course of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), and it is invariably depicted as \"high turnover osteoporosis.\" This statement needs to be revised in light of a recent biochemical study on bone turnover markers and regulators in patients with early CRPS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The real meaning of the findings arising from biochemical, radiological, and histopathological studies and the possible mechanism of action of parenteral bisphosphonates have been reviewed according to the bone metabolism derangement specific to this disease.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Consistent with the results of the recent biochemical study, no reliable data emerge from diagnostic studies sustaining an increased osteoclastic activity. Conversely, osteoblastic activity seems to be enhanced for an increased Wnt signaling due to lower levels of Sclerostin and Dickkopf-1. These results may provide a different and alternative interpretation of previous diagnostic and therapeutic studies.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>For the emerging role of bone in CRPS pathogenesis, these remarks could be useful for improving knowledge of the pathophysiology of the disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ran Chen, Kai Gong, Wei Chen, Zongfeng Chen, Xiang Hua, Jiaxin Tan, Yu Tian, Dong Liu, Lianyang Zhang, Ying Tang, Yang Li, Siru Zhou
{"title":"Author response to: OSIN-D-24-01898: Comment on \"Association of serum alkaline phosphatase levels with bone mineral density, osteoporosis prevalence, and mortality in US adults with osteoporosis: evidence from NHANES 2005-2018\".","authors":"Ran Chen, Kai Gong, Wei Chen, Zongfeng Chen, Xiang Hua, Jiaxin Tan, Yu Tian, Dong Liu, Lianyang Zhang, Ying Tang, Yang Li, Siru Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s00198-025-07388-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07388-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on \"Association of serum alkaline phosphatase levels with bone mineral density, osteoporosis prevalence, and mortality in US adults with osteoporosis: evidence from NHANES 2005-2018\".","authors":"Jiashen Shao, Huixin Zhang, Qi Fei","doi":"10.1007/s00198-025-07417-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07417-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19638,"journal":{"name":"Osteoporosis International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}