Pharmacological management of severe postmenopausal osteoporosis

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 405-417

  Gaudio, Agostino ^a   Morabito, Nancy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCITONIN; CALCIUM; CLODRONIC ACID; COLECALCIFEROL; ETIDRONIC ACID; IBANDRONIC ACID; PARATHYROID HORMONE[1-34]; RALOXIFENE; RISEDRONIC ACID; SALCATONIN; STRONTIUM RANELATE; TAMOXIFEN; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM INTAKE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELDERLY CARE; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHEMA; EXERCISE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FLATULENCE; FLUSHING; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HIP FRACTURE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERCALCIURIA; INJECTION SITE REACTION; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; LEG CRAMP; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; NOSE DISEASE; PLASMA HALF LIFE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; RHINITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; TABLET FORMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; VOMITING;

AGED; CALCITONIN; DIPHOSPHONATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; RALOXIFENE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; TERIPARATIDE;

EID: 22344456666     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200522050-00005     Document Type: Review

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