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Article: PTH appropriate for a select few patients with bone loss.(Metabolic Disorders)(parathyroid hormone)
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- Family Practice News
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- April 1, 2006
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SNOWMASS, COLO. -- The current evidence suggests it is a very small group of individuals with low bone density who should be treated with parathyroid hormone, Dr. Lenore Buckley said at a symposium sponsored by the American College of Rheumatology.
Probably the only patients who are proper candidates for parathyroid hormone (PTH) therapy, according to a recent cost-effectiveness analysis, are those patients who have an extremely low T score, below -3.5, and who are at least 70 years old or have had a vertebral fracture, said Dr. Buckley, a professor of internal medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
The cost-effectiveness analysis to ...