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There is no obvious alternative because: 1) taking nothing increases the risk of heart disease and osteoporosis; and 2) taking estrogen alone increases the risk of uterine cancer.
Significant inverse associations were found between BMD, osteoporosis and hip fracture.
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As in the Framingham cohort, the choice of bone for BMD measurement in NHANES I was the metacarpal [ 2 ] . Much has been written about the optimal choice of bone for BMD measurement, though no clear preference has dominated this literature [ 15 16 17 ] . Because we assumed that the most direct consequences of diminished BMD would be osteoporosis and hip fracture, associations of BMD with hip fracture and the development of osteoporosis were investigated in order to establish the validity of this BMD measurement in this cohort.
We have recently reported the anabolic action of PTH in an ovariectomized (OVX) Swiss-Webster mouse model, which like the rat model, displays a substantial amount of trabecular bone in its femoral metaphyses and a quantifiable loss of bone following OVX [ 11 ] . The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of simvastatin on the microarchitecture of bone in an established mouse model of osteoporosis, and compare its anabolic action with PTH.