Bone alkaline phosphatase and urine hydroxyproline assay in pre and postmenopausal women in the state of sikkim and its correlation with bone mineral density

• Main Authors: Anne Deborah Rai (Author), Mingma L Sherpa (Author), Amumacha Singh (Author), S G Thejaswi (Author), Rinchen D Bhutia (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: Osteoporosis could be viewed as a metabolic disease. The WHO guidelines for diagnosing osteoporosis reflect structural damage only and not the metabolic imbalance that leads to it. Biochemical markers of bone turnover have been shown to provide valuable information for diagnosing and m...