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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.
 
 
  • ISBMR is conducting the IOF Bone Densitometry Certified Course - 2011, at Taj Coromandel, Nungumbakkam, Chennai from 29-30 September 2011. Download - Brochure & Registration Form

  • ISBMR, is organizing the 7th Annual Conference of the ISBMR, at the Taj Coromandel, Chennai, on Saturday, 1st and Sunday, 2nd of October 2011.
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  • IOF 13th World Wide Conference of Osteoporosis Patient Societies was be held in Valencia, Spain from 18-20 March 2011.

  • IOF Regionals Singapore'10 - 1st Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting was held from 10-13th December 2010 at Raffles city convention centre, Singapore.
  • ISBMR organized "Bone Health Essay Competition" pan India, results of which were announced on 20 Oct the World Osteoporosis Day.
  • 2nd Indian Osteporosis Congress-2010 was held at Mumbai from 9-10 October 2010.
  • The 6th Annual Conference of ISBMR was held at AIIMS, New Delhi from 13-14 August 2010.
  • The Conference was preceeded by IOF Certified Bone Densitometry course, conducted on 11-12 August 2010 at INMAS, New Delhi. < Download Report here >

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Bone Health Quiz was held at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi on 12 October, 2006.

 
   

Research Areas

Epidemiology, radiology, metabolic changes in skeletal fluorosis
Primary hyperparathyroidism in Indians: implications for disease understanding
Vitamin D deficiency in Indians
Normal BMD for Indians
Bone health of armed forces
Bone health of children
Risk factors for osteoporosis
Drug trials


Publications

1

Gupta A. Osteoporosis in India- the nutritional hypothesis. Natl Med J India 1996;9:268-74

2

Mithal A, Nangia S, Arya V, Verma BR, Gujral RB. Spinal bone mineral density in normal Indian females. J Bone Miner Res (suppl 1) 1998:S591 ( abstract ).

3

Mithal A, Skeletal fluorosis. In: Molecular and Cellular Biology of Bone (ed. Zaidi M), JAI press, Connecticut , USA . 1998

4

Mithal A. Singh AK. Endemic fluorosis and calcium intake. In: Calcium and Bone Development (eds. Bonjour JP, Tsang R) Nestle Nutrition Workship Series, Lipincott Raven Publishers, New York , 1998

5

Zargar AH, Laway BA, Masoodi BR, Hakim FA, Wani AI, Bashir MI, Mithal A. Hereditary Hypophosphetemic rickets: a report from the Indian subcontinent. Postgrad Med J 75;485, 1999.

6

WHO Global Task Force for Osteoporosis (Mithal A). Interim report and recommendations. Osteoporosis International; 10;259 - 264, 1999.

7

Singh AK , Avula S, Kher V, Rao DS, Mithal A. Calcitropic hormone status in North Indian patients with end stage renal disease. Natl Med J India 12;202, 1999

8

Zargar AH, Laway BA, Masoodi BR, Hakim FA, Wani AI, Bashir MI, Mithal A. Hereditary Hypophosphetemic rickets: a report from the Indian subcontinent. Postgrad Med J 75;485, 1999

9

Ravishankar U. Bone Mineral density in normal Indian women: Assessment by Dual Energy X ray Absorptiometry. In Sankaran B ed. “Osteoporosis” . Supported by South East Asia Regional Office, World Health Organization, pp120-122, 2000.

10

Zargar AH, Mithal A, Wani AI, Laway BA, Masoodi BR, Bashir MI, Ganil MA. Postgrad Med J 76;369, 2000

11

Goswami R, Gupta N, Goswami D, Marwaha RK, Tandon N, Kochupillai N. Prevalence and significance of low 25(OH) D concentration in healthy subjects in Delhi . Am J Clin Nutr 72;472-475, 2000.

12

Mithal A, Bandeira F, Meng X, Siverberg SJ, Shi Y, Mishra SK, Griz L, Macedo G, Celdas G, Bandeira C, Bilezikian JB, Rao DS. Clinical presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism: India , Brazil and China . In: The Parathyroids: Basic and clinical aspects. (eds: Bilezikian JP, Marcus R, Levine MA) Academic Press, San Diego , 2001

13

Mishra SK, Agarwal G, Kar DK, Gupta SK, Mithal A, Rastad J. Unique clinical characteristics of primary hyperparathyroidism in Indians. Brit J Surg 88;708, 2001

14

Agarwal G, Singh AK , Arya V, Mishra SK , Mithal A. Recovery pattern of patients with osteitis fibrosa cystica in primary hyperparathyroidism after successful parathyroidectomy. Surgery, 132:1075, 2002

15

Rao DS, Agarwal G, Talpos GB, Phillips ER, Bandiera F, Mishra SK, Mithal A. Role of Vitamin D and Calcium Nutrition in Disease Expression and Parathyroid Tumor Growth in Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Global Perspective. J Bone Miner Res, 17, suppl 2: N75-80, 2002

16

Reddy PG, Mithal A , Rao DS. Bone Mineral density in healthy Asian Indian women: Development of a reference database and implications for diagnosis of osteoporosis in Indian women living in the United States . J Bone Mineral Res 2002 (suppl. 1):SA270,

17

Dharmalingam M, Prasanna Kumar KM, Patil J, Karthikshankar S. Study of bone mineral density in postmenopausal women. Bone 2003. 32 (suppl) S178 (abstract).

18

Keramet A, Bhambhri R, Chakravarty D, Mithal A. Spinal bone mineral density in healthy urban Asian Indian women presenting for a preventive health check-up. J Bone Miner Res (suppl 1), 2003: SA083 ( abstract).

19

Bhambri R, Naik V, Taneja S, Rastogi S, Mithal A : Change in bone mineral density following treatment of osteomalacia and rickets. Endocrine Society (US), Philadelphia , June 19-22, 2003 : P-3/560 ( abstract).

20

Kung AWC, Chao HT, Huang K, Sriram U, et. al. Efficacy and safety of Raloxifene 60mg/day in postmenopausal Asian Women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab.88, 3130, 2003

21

Mithal A. Editorial. Bone Mineral Health of Indians. Natl. Med. J India,16: 294-297,2003

22

Kung AWC, Chao HT, Huang K, Sriram U et al. Efficacy and safety of Raloxifene 60mg/day in postmenopausal Asian Women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab.88, 3130, 2003

23

Tandon N, Marwaha RK, Kalra S, Gupta Nandita, Dudha A, Kochupillai N. Bone mineral parameters in healthy young Indian adults with optimal vitamin D availability. National Med J India., 16, 2003

24

Arya V, Bhambri R, Godbole MM, Mithal A. Vitamin D status and its correlation with bone mineral density in healthy Asian Indians. Osteoporosis International, 15: 56-61, 2004

25

Nangia S, Reddy PG, Mithal A, Arya V, Gujral RB, Rao DS. Bone mineral density in healthy Asian Indian women: development of a reference database and implications for diagnosis of osteoporosis. World Congress of Osteoporosis, Rio de Janeiro , May 14-18, 2004 .

26

Bhambri R, Keramet A, Chakravarty D, Mithal A. Femoral bone mineral density in healthy urban Asian Indian women presenting for a preventive health check. Endocrine Society (US), June 16-19, 2004 .

27

Nangia S, Reddy PG, Ramaswamy N, Mithal A, Sriram U. Bone mineral density in healthy Indian women: development of a reference database and implications for diagnosis of osteoporosis in Indian women. American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Adult Bone and Mineral Working Group, October 1-4, 2004

 




 

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