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ArticlePediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2012

Effect of thiazides on bone mineral density in children with idiopathic hypercalciuria.

Víctor García-Nieto, Margarita Monge-Zamorano, Montserrat González-García, María Isabel Luis-Yanes

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Article in Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Response to: A role for thiazide diuretic therapy in preventing bone loss, fracture and nephrolithiasis in individuals with thalassemia and hypercalciuria?Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2017
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  5. Idiopathic hypercalciuria and bone health.Current osteoporosis reports · 2012
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Víctor García-NietoPediatric Nephrology Department, Hospital Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Carretera del Rosario nº 145, 38010, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. vgarnie@gobiernodecanarias.org
Margarita Monge-Zamorano
Montserrat González-García
María Isabel Luis-Yanes
Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To determine the effect of thiazide treatment on bone mineral density (BMD) in children with idiopathic hypercalciuria (IH) and osteopenia, we reviewed the case notes of 22 children aged 11.7 ± 2.7 years diagnosed with IH and osteopenia who had received thiazides for 2.4 years. The data on this group were compared with those of 32 IH children with osteopenia aged 11.2 ± 2.7 years who had not received thiazide treatment. By the end of the follow-up period, the z-BMD had improved spontaneously in 23 of the 32 control children (72%) and in 12 of the 22 patients on thiazides (54%). Although treated patients had a higher body mass index (BMI) and a higher BMD following treatment, the differences became statistically negligible when these parameters were expressed as z-BMD or as bone mineral apparent density (BMAD). In contrast, within the control group, there were significant differences in BMAD and z-BMD at the end of the follow-up. Patients who had an improved z-BMD at the end of the treatment also showed an increase in their BMI. Based on these results, we conclude that thiazide treatment does not improve the z-BMD in children with IH. More than half of the children suffering from IH enrolled in our study showed a spontaneous improvement in their z-BMD, which was more evident when the initial BMAD was not low and when their BMI increased during the follow-up period.

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AdolescentBody Mass IndexBone DensityBone Diseases, MetabolicChildFemaleHumansHypercalciuriaMaleThiazidesThiazides

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PMID21874585
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