… MD; Gómez-Arango, Catalina MD; Galíndez-Agirregoikoa, Eva MD; Blanco-Madrigal,
Juan MD; Ortiz-Santamaria, Vera MD, PhD; del Blanco-Barnusell, Jordi MD; De Dios, Juan …

Objective: To analyze the clinical, microbiological, and radiologic features of patients without
drug addiction suffering from spontaneous pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis. Methods: We …

Background. Some chronic diseases have been associated to an impairment of nutritional
status. Objective. To analyze nutritional status and its relation to dietary intake, disease activity …

OBJECTIVE: The etiopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is not fully known; vitamin D
has been shown to have immunomodulatory effects and could be implicated in it. BsmI …

OBJECTIVE: Few data are available on clinically diagnosed vertebral fracture. Information
about osteoporotic vertebral fracture has mainly been obtained via inferences from …

OBJECTIVE Criteria to decide which patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) should be
examined by dual energy x ray absorptiometry (DXA) are currently not available. The …

Objective: To analyse whether bone mineral density (BMD) assessment is required in
postmenopausal women presenting with low trauma vertebral fracture. Methods: Women with …

Background Predicting the occurrence of a flare using tools and information that are readily
available in daily clinical practice would provide added value in disease management. …

Dual energy x ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the most commonly used method of measuring
bone mineral density (BMD); it has been shown to be a good predictor of the future risk of …

to next page infections of drugs, in triggering MAS has always been based on a close temporal
relation in the absence of other potentially eliciting factors". As stated in our paper, we …