Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common form of arthritis and is often associated with
significant disability and impaired quality of life. This is an update of a Cochrane review first …

Background: The Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form (SF-36) is a widely used
measure of health-related quality of life. Normative data are the key to determining whether a …

Background and Methods Osteoporosis is a recognized complication of corticosteroid
therapy. Whether it can be prevented is not known. We conducted a 12-month, randomized, …

OBJECTIVE: Glucosamine is commonly used for the treatment of osteoarthritis. It is available
as an over the counter preparation and also as a prescription pharmaceutical. There is …

Background: Fractures have largely been assessed by their impact on quality of life or health
care costs. We conducted this study to evaluate the relation between fractures and mortality…

Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was examined in relation to prevalent fractures in 4816
community-dwelling Canadian men and women 50 years and older participating in the …

This cross‐sectional cohort study of 5566 women and 2187 men 50 years of age and older
in the population‐based Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study was conducted to …

Using prospective data from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos), we
compared health utilities index (HUI) scores after 5 years of follow-up among participants (50 …

Osteoporotic fractures can be a major cause of morbidity. It is important to determine the
impact of fractures on health-related quality of life (HRQL). A total of 3,394 women and 1,122 …

We examined osteoporosis diagnosis/treatment in 2,187 community dwelling men age 50+.
After five years in the study, 90% of men with fragility fractures remained undiagnosed and …