The implications of biologic therapy in ankylosing spondylitis: Comment on the articles by Brandt et al and Braun et al

✍ Scribed by Ravik Mascarenhas; Martin Davis; Lindsay Robertson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 201 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.20343

✦ Synopsis

Data from patients who were outside the age range of the Faulkner reference data were considered not applicable (NA). DM ϭ dermatomyositis; DXA ϭ dual x-ray absorptiometry.

2378 LETTERS healthy controls. Future studies are needed to determine optimal strategies for addressing the contribution of short stature to DXA-derived 2-dimensional measures of BMD.

Until then, we need to be cautious when interpreting decreased BMD Z scores as evidence of osteoporosis.