Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis in the High-Risk Patient (Hardcover)

This book is intended for physicians of all specialties who see patients who have or might be at risk of developing osteoporosis. The rationale for a volume such as this is based upon the outcome of recent clinical trials in osteoporosis. In these studies of two bisphosphonates, an interaction between bone mineral density (BMD) and the treatment effect was seen, such that these agents appeared to lose their effect as BMD increased. To practitioners this is counter-intuitive. Why should treatment work and not prevention?