Spinal osteoporosis calcitonin

In postmenopausal osteoporosis treatment with calcitriol plus etidronate or calcitonin produced improvement in spinal bone mineral density, but a high rate of nephrotoxic adverse events (17). 

Calcium supplements, along with estrogen and calcitonin therapy, are commonly used in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Bone loss dearly occurs with diets supplying under 400 mg Ca/day, Bone loss can be mirvimized with the consumpbon of the RDA for calcium. There is some thought that all postmenopausal women should consume lOOO to 1500 mg of calcium per day, an amount higher than the RDA, There is some evidence that such supplementation can reduce bone losses of the ulna but have no effect on spinal bone losses Smith and GiUigan, 1990),... 

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