4 results match your criteria: "School of Clinical Sciences Monash University Clayton Victoria Australia.[Affiliation]"
Assessing vitamin D as a biomarker in inflammatory bowel disease.
JGH Open
December 2023
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Monash Health Clayton Victoria Australia.
Article Synopsis
- Researchers are looking into whether vitamin D can be used as a marker to understand how active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is in patients.
- The study included 616 patients and found a link between low vitamin D levels and higher signs of inflammation in both types of IBD: ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
- The results suggest that vitamin D could help doctors measure IBD activity better, but more studies are needed to confirm this.
Dilemmas in the Management of Osteoporosis in Younger Adults.
JBMR Plus
January 2022
Department of Endocrinology Monash Health Clayton Victoria Australia.
Osteoporosis in premenopausal women and men younger than 50 years is challenging to diagnose and treat. There are many barriers to optimal management of osteoporosis in younger adults, further enhanced by a limited research focus on this cohort. Herein we describe dilemmas commonly encountered in diagnosis, investigation, and management of osteoporosis in younger adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFreezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease: Its Pathophysiology and Pragmatic Approaches to Management.
Mov Disord Clin Pract
December 2016
Background: Freezing of gait (FOG) in Parkinson's disease (PD) is poorly understood; however, with the established understanding of basal ganglia function, its manifestations should be more easily interpretable. This review examines freezing of gait (FOG) from such a perspective.
Methods: A search of the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases from the year 2000 onward for review articles, focused on the pathophysiology of FOG, was used to determine current concepts.