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Bone Quality and Fractures in Women With Osteoporosis Treated With Bisphosphonates for 1 to 14 Years.

Hartmut H Malluche, Jin Chen, Florence Lima, Lucas J Liu, Marie-Claude Monier-Faugere, David Pienkowski

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Article in JBMR plus, 2021. 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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6citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Estrogen loss activates memory T-cells to compromise bone integrity through distinct cortical compartments in mice.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2025
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  3. Trabecular bone microcrack accumulation in patients treated with bisphosphonates for durations up to 16 years.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 2023
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  4. Management of bone loss due to endocrine therapy during cancer treatment.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hartmut H MallucheDivision of Nephrology, Bone & Mineral Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington KY USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5604-9941
Jin ChenDivision of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington KY USA.
Florence LimaDivision of Nephrology, Bone & Mineral Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington KY USA.
Lucas J LiuDepartment of Computer Science University of Kentucky Lexington KY USA.
Marie-Claude Monier-FaugereDivision of Nephrology, Bone & Mineral Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington KY USA.
David PienkowskiF. Joseph Halcomb III, MD Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Kentucky Lexington KY USA.
University of Kentucky · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral bisphosphonates are the primary medication for osteoporosis, but concerns exist regarding potential bone-quality changes or low-energy fractures. This cross-sectional study used artificial intelligence methods to analyze relationships among bisphosphonate treatment duration, a wide variety of bone-quality parameters, and low-energy fractures. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and histomorphometry quantified bone-quality parameters in 67 osteoporotic women treated with oral bisphosphonates for 1 to 14 years. Artificial intelligence methods established two models relating bisphosphonate treatment duration to bone-quality changes and to low-energy clinical fractures. The model relating bisphosphonate treatment duration to bone quality demonstrated optimal performance when treatment durations of 1 to 8 years were separated from treatment durations of 9 to 14 years. This may be due to a change in relationship of bone-quality parameters with treatment duration. This model also showed that the effects of bisphosphonate treatment duration were most highly correlated with changes in means and standard deviations of infrared spectroscopically derived mineral and matrix parameters and histomorphometric bone turnover parameters. A second model related treatment duration to bone fracture in all 22 patients who fractured while on treatment with bisphosphonates for more than 8 years. This second model showed that bisphosphonate treatment duration, not hip bone mineral density (BMD), was the most strongly correlated parameter to these low-energy bone fractures. Application of artificial intelligence enabled analysis of large quantities of structural, cellular, mineral, and matrix bone-quality parameters to determine relationships with long-term oral bisphosphonate treatment and fracture. Infrared spectroscopy provides clinically relevant bone-quality information of which bone mineral purity is among the most relevant. Nine or more years of bisphosphonate treatment was associated with abnormal bone mineral purity, matrix abnormalities, and low-energy fractures. These data justify limiting bisphosphonate treatment duration to 8 years. © 2021 The Authors.

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BISPHOSPHONATESBONE QUALITYDXAFRACTURE RISK ASSESSMENTOSTEOPOROSIS

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