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The New Bone Health Book was released on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 by Prof. R. C. Deka, Director, AIIMS, at Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium.  |
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ISBMR will be sending representatives to 19th IOF Advanced Training Course on Osteoporosis which will be held on February 2 – 4, 2010 in Lyon, France, to attend the course as representatives of ISBMR.
6th
Annual Conference of ISBMR, will be held on 13th and 14th August, 2010. Details of the event would be available later .
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| Essay competition on Osteoporosis was conducted on the eve of World Osteoporosis Day 2009 by ISBMR. Award Ceremony was held on November 19, 2009 at AIIMS, New Delhi.
5th Annual Conference of Indian Society For Bone And Mineral Research (ISBMR) was held at HOTEL INDER RESIDENCY, UDAIPUR (RAJASTHAN) on 8th October 2009.
A Bone Densitometry Workshop and certification course was held at P.D. Hinduja National Hospital on 6-7th October 2009.
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Bone Health
Quiz was held at All India Institute of Medical
Sciences in Delhi on 12 October, 2006.
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First
Annual Conference of The Indian Society for Bone and Mineral Society |
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| “Symposium
on Metabolic Bone Disorders”,
the title of the first Annual Conference
of The Indian Society for Bone and Mineral Society
was held at All India Institute of Medical Sciences
on 10th November 2005. The
symposium was supported and acknowledged by
International Osteoporosis Foundation, Geneva,
the leading world known organization, which
is dedicated to fight against osteoporosis.
This one-day event was attended by more than
one hundred and fifty delegates, which included
specialists from the field of endocrinology,
gynecology and orthopedics.
The faculty members comprised
of endocrine and osteoporosis specialists from
all over India and abroad. Dr. Ghada El-Hajj
Fuleihan-Lebanon, Dr Akira Itabashi-Japan, Dr
M F Holic-USA, Dr Subhash Kukreja-USA, Dr D
Sudhaker Rao-USA and Dr Daniel Thiebaud from
Australia. Dr Manoj Chadha-Mumbai, Dr Ravinder
Goswami-Delhi, Dr Sushil Gupta- Lucknow, Dr.
Urvashi Jha-Delhi, Dr Raman Marwaha-Delhi, Dr
Ambrish Mithal-Delhi, Dr Uma Ravishankar-Delhi,
Dr Nikhil Tandon-Delhi and Dr Usha Sriram from
Chennai.
The scientific program was
tailor made with the topics like bone remodeling
in health & disease, vitamin D status in
Indians, treatment of osteoporosis, SERMS and
calcitonin, bisphosphonates – recent advances
and practical issues in bone densitometry. |
Dr
Ambrish Mithal, President of ISBMR, welcomed
the delegates and started the conference with
opening remarks on the objectives of The Indian
Society for Bone and Mineral Research and talked
about the spreading awareness of osteoporosis
through physician education and general public.
Then he invited Mrs. Wilson who is 78years old
and suffering from osteoporosis for the last
20 years to share her experiences & views
with the audience. |
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The
morning session was on “Pathophysiology
of Osteoporosis” and the first talk of
this sessions was delivered by D Sudhaker Rao-USA,
on “Bone remodeling in health and disease:
new insights” saying that although skeletal
homeostasis and mineral homeostasis appear to
be independent of each other, they are in reality
closely interrelated and interdependent. Negative
calcium balance will lead to bone loss and bone
fractures, and conversely, adequate calcium
nutrition maintains |
bone
strength and integrity With the advent of bone
densitometers, cellular mechanisms responsible
for bone loss have taken a back seat, but bone
density contributes only 30-35% or so for osteoporotic
fracture syndrome. Thorough understanding of
bone biology, skeletal homeostasis, and their
intimate intricate relationships to bone and
mineral metabolism in general and mineral homeostasis
in particular, is essential for clinical practice
of osteoporosis. |
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This
was followed by a talk on “Nutrition and
osteoporosis” by Dr Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan
from Lebanon who elaborated on the rational
and potential use and impact of nutrition on
bone health. She said that normal variations
in dietary protein may affect bone health; low
protein intake seems to be associated with bone
loss, whereas high protein intake maintains
BMD in elderly persons. Protein intake promotes
bone health through effects on the IGF1 axis
increasing BMD and a direct effect on muscle,
the latter also maintaining BMD and also reducing
falls and therefore fracture risk. |
A
second session was on “The Asian Scene”
and first talk of this session was delivered
by Dr Akira Itabashi from Japan, who informed
the delegates about current status of Osteoporosis
in Japan. After a comprehensive review of literature
he concluded his talk by showing his trials
and their results done in Japan on the patient
of Osteoporosis. Next talk was also on current
Indian scenario of Osteoporosis and detailed
review of trials done by Dr K M Prasanna, Bangalore.
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D Status in Indians” by Dr Raman Marwaha,
Delhi, saying that high prevalence of clinical
and biochemical hypovitaminosis D and low BMD
in Indians especially from poorer sections of
the society suggests that nutrition plays an important
role in causation of hypovitaminosis D. |
| The afternoon session was on
“Professor MMS Ahuja Memorial Lecture”
and the talk on “Vitamin D for optimal Health”
was delivered by Dr M F Holick, Boston. |
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The
fourth session was on “treatment of Osteoporosis”
and first talk of this session on “SERMS
and calcitonin: current status” was delivered
by Dr Subhash Kukreja from USA. This talk was
followed by Dr D Sudhaker Rao on the topic “
Bisphosphonates: resent advances”. He
explained in details about the Bisphosphonate
therapy in various metabolic bone disorders.
He said that with the discovery of bisphosphonates’
avidity to the skeleton, the therapeutic horizon
for managing osteoporosis has become much easier.
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The
first generation bisphosphonates (etidronate
and clodronate) were initially developed for
the treatment of Paget’s disease of bone
and were later found to be effective also in
preventing age-related bone loss and osteoporotic
fractures. Only alendronate and risedronate
are currently approved for clinical use in osteoporosis.
Other related compounds, pamidronate, ibandronate,
and zolidronate, are also used in certain circumstances.
Despite poor gastrointestinal absorption, long
biologic half-life and skeletal avidity make
them ideal drugs for osteoporosis management.
Dr Daniel Thiebaud from Sydney, delivered the
next talk on “New and emerging therapies”
from Sydney. |
After
evening tea break, a session on “Practical
Issues in Bone Densitometry” was discussed
between eminent moderators and panelists like
Dr Subhash Kukreja, Dr Uma Ravishanker, Dr Akira
Itabashi, Dr Ghada Fuleihan and Dr D Sudhaker
Rao. |
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The
symposium was concluded by closing remarks of
the faculty and vote of thanks by Dr Nikhil
Tandon. |
There
was an active participation of delegates through
out the day in the form of discussions on various
problems and queries encountered by them in
day-to-day practice. |
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and oral presentation was also performed during
the conference by the participants from all
over India and was published in the conference
proceeding book. |
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