Osteoporosis

Anti-osteoporosis activity of red yeast rice extract on ovariectomy-induced bone loss in rats

Y. F. Wang, Liu, W. T., Chen, C. Y., Ke, H. P., Jiang, H. L., Chen, X. L., Shi, S. Y., Wei, W., and Zhang, X. N., Anti-osteoporosis activity of red yeast rice extract on ovariectomy-induced bone loss in rats, vol. 14, pp. 8137-8146, 2015.

Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease, affecting millions of people worldwide and leading to significant morbidity and high costs. Monacolin K, an extract of red yeast rice (RYR, Hongqu), plays important roles in the management of dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, and diabetes. Our study aimed to investigate the protective effect of monacolin K on ovariectomy-induced bone loss in rats.

COL1A1 gene -1997G/T polymorphism and risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women: a meta-analysis

K. H. Yu, Tang, J., Dai, C. Q., Yu, Y., and Hong, J. J., COL1A1 gene -1997G/T polymorphism and risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women: a meta-analysis, vol. 14, pp. 10991-10998, 2015.

Studies investigating the association between the COL1A1 gene -1997G/T polymorphism and the risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women have reported conflicting results. We performed a meta-analysis based on the evidence currently available from the literature to make a more precise estimation of this relationship. We conducted searches of the published literature in the PubMed and Embase databases up to September 2014. We estimated the pooled odds ratios with their 95% confidence intervals to assess the associations using fixed- or random-effect models.

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