Zink and Bone Strength

Northern Orthopaedic Division, Denmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fracture of Femoral Neck; Coxarthrosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00317863

ON-04-003-JO

Details and patient eligibility

About

Zink and bone strength

Full description

blood- and urine samples collected from 20 OA patients and 20 osteoporosis patients who all had a hip-replacement. All patients were evaluated by DEXA-scanning.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Postmenopausal women with osteoarthrosis or femoral neck-fracture i one hip

Exclusion criteria

pathology or prosthesis in contralateral hip