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- Title
Trace element strontium and osteoporosis.
- Authors
WANG Maiquan; LI Yunfeng
- Abstract
With the increase of aging population worldwide, osteoporosis has become a common disease seriously damaging health in the elderly. People with osteoporosis not only prone to fractures, but also confront the failure of dental implants and artificial joint replacement. These severely limit the improvement of the quality of life of the elder patients. Therefore, to explore a scientific way to improve bone metabolism in patients with osteoporosis, to prevent from osteoporotic fractures, and to promote fracture healing has become an urgent problem in orthopedics, oithopodic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and multidisciplinary field of geriatrics. Recent studies have found that trace element strontium is a drug that has dual effects of both promoting osteogenesis and inhibiting bone resorption. This paper reviews progress on the study of trace clement strontium for the osteoporosis treatment.
- Publication
Chinese Journal of Osteoporosis, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 10, p1258
- ISSN
1006-7108
- Publication type
Article