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This review summarizes bone health issues, fracture incidence, reduced bone mineral density, risk factors, and treatment options in children with neuromuscular diseases.
This review provides recommendations for monitoring and treating bone health issues in children with neuromuscular disorders.
May warrant bone health monitoring in children with neuromuscular diseases; leaves open optimal treatments pending prospective trials.
This paper provides a broad review of bone health issues in children with neuromuscular diseases (NMD). As Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common neuromuscular disease of childhood, there is a strong emphasis on this. This paper reviews the incidence of fractures, the degree of the reduced bone mineral density, the risk factors associated with this common problem, and the non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatment options. Recommendations for monitoring and treatment are provided.
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Ness et al. (2014) conducted a review in Neuromuscular diseases, specifically Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This review summarizes bone health issues, fracture incidence, reduced bone mineral density, risk factors, and treatment options in children with neuromuscular diseases.
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