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Sunday, January 30, 2011

How to Assess & Treat Bone Loss

Assessing & Treating Bone Loss #7

Seven Tips For Improving Outcomes Here are a few evaluation and management tips that Dr. Vargo & her colleagues have gathered over their years of practice focused on osteoporosis

Avoid the ‘Roids:

Corticosteroids are bad news for bone, so keep a close eye on any patient on long-term steroid therapy, regardless of why they were prescribed these drugs. Try to avoid using steroids in patients at high fracture risk. Watch women on depo-provera contraception very closely, as it has steroid-like, bone-depleting effects. “I get DEXAs on all my provera patients. If BMD is decreasing, we look for different methods of birth control.”

https://holisticprimarycare.net/topics/topics-h-n/healthy-aging/954-assessing-a-treating-bone-loss-seven-tips-for-improving-outcomes

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