Growth Hormone

Posted by sjpa @sjpa, Mar 1 11:37am

Regarding severe osteoporosis with bone fractures, I found a very promising review re possibility for growth hormone reducing future fracture risk. Does anyone have experience with this?

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colely | @colely | Mar 2 2:41pm

Hi. Could you give information on your reference?

sjpa | @sjpa | Mar 2 2:57pm

Sure- probably within a day

ans | @ans | Mar 3 6:03am

@sipa- very interesting!! Would love to hear more.

sjpa | @sjpa | Mar 3 9:04am

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570174/
here is the first article I read
Swedish study

I have been trying to find trials since the in USA.

I loved the Qol (‘quality of life’) statistic which looks optimistic - eg- don’t want worsening as some prescription drugs (like forteo) to help bone development can unfortunately have for patients.

Also, what we are wanting is fracture reduction- whole purpose of treatment- so I view this as more important than bone density itself

Anyway- lots of room for further research

hopefullibrarian | @hopefullibrarian | Mar 5 8:41pm

In reply to @sjpa "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570174/ here is the first article I read Swedish study I have been trying to find..." + (show)

Thank you. That's really interesting.

I found this related post on the Mayo Clinic website:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/healthy-aging/in-depth/growth-hormone/art-20045735
It's about HGH and anti-aging which includes age related conditions such as osteoporosis.