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Review
. 2013 Dec;11(4):257-62.
doi: 10.1007/s11914-013-0172-1.

Osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and spondylarthropathies

Elizabeth Smelter Clayton  1 , Marc C Hochberg
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Osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and spondylarthropathies

Elizabeth Smelter Clayton et al. Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2013 Dec.

Abstract

Osteoporosis (OP) commonly occurs in the setting of inflammatory arthritis, whereas there is an inverse relationship with osteoarthritis (OA). We review the recent updates in epidemiology and pathophysiology of OP relating to several arthridities. In ankylosing spondylitis, lateral lumbar spine dual x-ray absorptiometry is better at detecting osteoporosis compared with the AP view and patients receiving treatment with anti- tumor necrosis factor medications had lower levels of bone turnover markers. With regard to rheumatoid arthritis, anticitrullinated peptide positivity without clinical arthritis as well as higher levels of interleukin-6 is associated with decreased bone mineral density and polymorphisms in the vitamin D receptor in RA patients may predispose to OP. With regard to OA, results from the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women study and several radiological studies suggest that differences in the distribution of bone mass at the femoral neck may account for the inverse relationship of OA and OP, and several studies suggest that OA and OP have opposing cytokine and bone metabolism marker profiles.

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