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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-1-13
pubmed:abstractText
Osteoporosis is a common concomitant disease in patients with rheumatic diseases on glucocorticoid (GC) therapy. Bone status is usually evaluated by determination of bone density in combination with clinical examinations and laboratory tests. However, the strength of individual biochemical bone makers in GC-induced osteoporosis has yet to be fully clarified. For this reason, different bone markers were investigated in correlation with bone density in patients with rheumatic diseases. Approximately 238 patients (212 women, 26 men) with a rheumatic disease and under GC therapy were examined consecutively for the first time with regard to bone density (BMD) and bone markers [osteocalcin, bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (precipitation method/tandem-MP ostase), crosslinks [pyridinoline (PYD), deoxypyridinoline (DPX), N-terminal telopeptide (NTX)]]. The daily glucocorticoid dose was 10 mg prednisone equivalent (median), and the cumulative dose was 12 g prednisone equivalent (median). None of the patients had previously taken medication for osteoporosis. Osteoporosis was demonstrated in 35.3% of the patients, osteopenia in 47.5%, and a normal BMD in 17.2%. The results of tandem-MP ostase correlated with the BMD of the lumbar spine and of the femoral neck. The values for N-terminal telopeptide and pyridinoline correlated only with the bone density of the femoral neck. All results were statistically significant, although the correlation coefficients were low. After classification of the patients according to their BMD values (osteoporosis, osteopenia and normal BMD), there were significantly more patients with bone markers above the norm in the osteoporosis group and in the osteopenia group than in the group with normal bone density. All bone markers recorded behaved similarly in relation to the bone density values. The same analysis was also undertaken for the different disease groups. In these subgroups there was also a correlation between ostase/crosslinks with BMD, but the correlation coefficients were low. A general recommendation for the routine use of a specific bone marker in patients with rheumatic diseases on glucocorticoid therapy cannot be made from a cost-benefit point of view mainly because of limited predictive power (low correlation coefficients, incomplete correlation with different sites of BMD measurement).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0172-8172
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
331-6
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Alkaline Phosphatase, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Amino Acids, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Biological Markers, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Bone Density, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Bone Diseases, Metabolic, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Collagen Type I, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Femur Neck, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Glucocorticoids, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Lumbar Vertebrae, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Osteocalcin, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Osteoporosis, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Prednisone, pubmed-meshheading:15887044-Rheumatic Diseases
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Correlation of different bone markers with bone density in patients with rheumatic diseases on glucocorticoid therapy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Charité-Mitte, Charité University Hospital, Schumannstrasse 20/21, 10117 Berlin, Germany. konstanze.loddenkemper@charite.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article