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Bone turnover markers (CTX and P1NP): do you have a baseline?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Oct 5 5:35pm | Replies (183)Comment receiving replies
nme 1985,
ctx measures a fragment of collagen that is removed by the bloodstream when the bones are being broken down. It is higher if you are healing a broken bone or if your bones are still growing Or if you have osteoporosis. 880 reflects greater bone breakdown than 350. Which is great if you've fractured or if your bones are growing.
Even so, if the P1NP is high you might still be replacing the bone equal or greater than the bone you are losing.
Bone turnover, though, is important (in addition to growing bone and healing bone) for remodeling bone. You need different bone alignment and strength for variant activities. So if you were to take up parachuting, your bones would breakdown and rebuild to proctect you from breakage in this activity.
Do you really have ten years of CTX. It would be interesting to look at in terms of age and bisphosphonate use, if you feel like entering them here.
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