Osteoporosis

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Osteoporosis : Daily Injection For Strong Bones ?

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he Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just affix his seal on a few current treatment of osteoporosis.Few current and leaving pensive, since it is a daily injection in the thigh or abdomen….

The Teriparatide, extracted from the parathyroid hormone that regulates calcium levels in the blood, has been tested for 19 months on a cohort of 1 600 and postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.

With good results, as a result of a daily injection bone mineral density measured at vertebral bones and in the basin has been significantly increased after treatment.

This substance would have shown much higher and the treatment received by the control group, and based on a supplemental calcium and vitamin D. A treatment that the state of the art currently is not what is most effective…

However, the effectiveness of Teriparatide being established, its use is permitted today… under control. For it is not devoid of risks.

The FDA cites studies that effect, carried out on rats have shown an increased risk of osteosarcoma, a bone cancer admittedly rare but serious. No cases have been found in humans but the agency stressed that "the risk can not be totally ruled out."

Now whether any patients are ready to make herself each day an injection in the thigh or abdomen.

If the discovery is the delight of researchers who boast the elegance of its mode of action, clinicians them - rheumatologists or general - remain skeptical. We must also say that they are the ones who must care for sick…



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