Disease Burden and Treatment Preferences Amongst Postmenopausal Women with Severe Osteoporosis in Greece.

Objective: The objectives of this study were to elicit self-reported health status, quantify osteoporosis-related burden, and understand preferences for treatment attributes among postmenopausal women with severe osteoporosis in Greece.

Methods: Postmenopausal women with self-reported severe osteoporosis, defined as having suffered at least one osteoporotic fracture and reporting a T-score of ≤-2.5, were asked to evaluate their health status, osteoporosis management, and disease-related physical, emotional, and financial burden.

Prevalence of morphometric vertebral fractures in osteoporotic patients in Greece: the Vertebral Integrity Assessment (VERTINAS) study.

Unlabelled: Our purpose was to assess the prevalence of morphometric vertebral fractures (VFs) in osteoporotic patients in our country. We found that 25.4% of patients had sustained a VF, and the majority of them (76.

Quantitative ultrasound of the calcaneus in greek women: normative data are different from the manufacturer's normal range.

Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) is considered a useful method in evaluating bone status. The aim of the present study was to establish the reference data for the QUS measurements of the calcaneus in a Greek population. We measured a QUS parameter, stiffness index (SI), at the right calcaneus in 1500 women using the Achilles express Ultrasonometer (GE Lunar, Madison, WI).