Care needs of higher-functioning nursing home residents.

Objectives: To quantify and characterize the chronic conditions of older Americans who live in nursing homes (NHs) but have minimal disability and might be able to live in less restrictive and less expensive settings.

Design: Secondary analysis of the 1999 National Nursing Home Survey.

Participants: NH staff members familiar with the care of residents who were 65 years or older and had resided in the NH for more than 100 days.

Effects of teriparatide [rhPTH (1-34)] treatment on structural geometry of the proximal femur in elderly osteoporotic women.

Introduction: We evaluated effects of teriparatide (rDNA origin) injection [teriparatide, rhPTH (1-34), TPTD] on hip structure among a subset 558 postmenopausal women enrolled in the Fracture Prevention Trial.

Methods: Patients were randomized to once-daily, self-administered subcutaneous injections of placebo (N = 189), teriparatide 20 mug (TPTD20; N = 186), or 40 mug (TPTD40; N = 183) for a median of 20 months. Repeated dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) hip scans were analyzed with the Hip Structure Analysis (HSA) program to derive structural geometry.