Title |
National Bone Health Alliance Bone Turnover Marker Project: current practices and the need for US harmonization, standardization, and common reference ranges
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Published in |
Osteoporosis International, July 2012
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DOI | 10.1007/s00198-012-2049-z |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
D. Bauer, J. Krege, N. Lane, E. Leary, C. Libanati, P. Miller, G. Myers, S. Silverman, H. W. Vesper, D. Lee, M. Payette, S. Randall |
Abstract |
This position paper reviews how the National Bone Health Alliance (NBHA) will execute a project to help assure health professionals of the clinical utility of bone turnover markers; the current clinical approaches concerning osteoporosis and the status and use of bone turnover markers in the USA; the rationale for focusing this effort around two specific bone turnover markers; the need to standardize bone marker sample collection procedures, reference ranges, and bone turnover marker assays in clinical laboratories; and the importance of harmonization for future research of bone turnover markers. |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 13% |
Student > Master | 18 | 13% |
Student > Bachelor | 10 | 7% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 7% |
Other | 36 | 26% |
Unknown | 24 | 18% |
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Sports and Recreations | 6 | 4% |
Other | 18 | 13% |
Unknown | 35 | 26% |