2025 Questions And Answers
Women - ANS is osteoporosis 8x more common in men or women?
PTH and RANKL - ANS what stimulate the osteoclasts to work
estrogen - ANS what hormone inhibits osteoclasts
>65 - ANS at what age is someone at a greater risk of osteoporosis
corticosteroids
thyroid replacement
heparin
anti-epileptics
long acting sedatives - ANS what are the medications that can increase a person's risk of
developing osteoporosis
IBD
CKD
cirrhosis
RA
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, hyperthyroidism - ANS what disease processes can increase a person's risk of developing
osteoporosis
DEXA scan - ANS the gold standard of bone mineral density scans
back pain
spontaneous fractures
height loss
kyphosis - ANS what are the four general manifestations of osteoporosis
bisphosphonates - ANS drugs used to block bone resorption and lower serum calcium levels
in several conditions
jaw osteonecrosis - ANS what risk comes with taking a bisphosphonate
denosumab - ANS the anti-rankl that we give to post-menopausal women at high risk for
fractures
SQ for 6 months - ANS how do we give denosumab for and for how long?
systemic side effects
jaw osteonecrosis - ANS what side effects can come along with taking denosumab
pagets disease - ANS a chronic skeletal disease in which normal bone marrow is replaced
with vascular fibrous tissue and bones become weakened and enlarged
bone pain
waddling gait
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