OBJECTIVE: To determine the current values and estimate the projected values (to the year
2041) for annual number of proximal femoral fractures (PFFs), age-adjusted rates of fracture, …

Background: The Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form (SF-36) is a widely used
measure of health-related quality of life. Normative data are the key to determining whether a …

Background: Fractures have largely been assessed by their impact on quality of life or health
care costs. We conducted this study to evaluate the relation between fractures and mortality…

Meta-analyses of therapies for postmenopausal osteoporosis. VIII: Meta-analysis of the efficacy
of vitamin D treatment in preventing osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. - Abstract …

A. Abstract Objective: To review the effect of vitamin D on bone density and fractures in
postmenopausal women. Data Source: We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE from 1966 to 1999 …

Background. There has been a paucity of data on the healthcare resource utilization of
infectious disease-related complications in solid organ transplant recipients. The aims of this …

Vertebral fractures are the most common osteoporotic fracture, and patients with prevalent
vertebral fractures have a greater risk of future fractures. However, radiographically …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease which, when left untreated, may
result in the destruction of multiple joints and damage a wide variety of body systems, …

Purposes: 1. To determine the one year mortality, institutionalization, and re-fracture rates
following hip fractures in Canadians. 2. To compare post-fracture outcomes between those …

Background: Limited information exists regarding the natural progression of health-related
quality of life (HRQOL) in the general population, as most research has been cross-sectional …