A csonttörés kockázati tényezőinek vizsgálata postmenopausás, osteoporosisos nőbetegek körében

INTRODUCTION: The main consequence of osteoporosis is bone fracture. Bone fracture risk is determined by several risk factors beyond osteodensitometric results. Some of these factors could be estimated by simple clinical questionnaires. AIM: The aim of the present study (Score-HU) was to investigate the risk factors of bone fracture among osteoporotic postmenopausal women (n = 11,221), who were examined in an osteologic outpatient departments. METHOD: Risk factors of each patient were recorded with the use of a simple identical data sheet. RESULTS: The incidence of risk factors were the following: previous bone fracture (79.4%), medication (except antiporotic treatment, antihypertensive drugs 67.9%, sleeping pills 36%, antidepressants 26.5%, corticosteroids 13.5%), decreased mobility (44.6%), early menopause (31.9%), smoking (31.2%), frequent falls (29.1%), and poor health status (more than 3 chronic diseases; 24.1%). CONCLUSIONS: Estimating the above mentioned risk factors we could assess the bone fracture risk more accurately than taking alone the bone mineral density results into consideration. Orv. Hetil., 2015, 156(4), 146-153

The 2010 European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission proposal

International audienceThe European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission described in this paper was proposed in December 2010 to ESA as an 'M-class' mission under the Cosmic Vision programme. It consists of a single balloon platform floating in the middle of the main convective cloud layer of Venus at an altitude of 55 km, where temperatures and pressures are benign (∼25°C and ∼0.5 bar). The balloon float lifetime would be at least 10 Earth days, long enough to guarantee at least one full circumnavigation of the planet. This offers an ideal platform for the two main science goals of the mission: study of the current climate through detailed characterization of cloud-level atmosphere, and investigation of the formation and evolution of Venus, through careful measurement of noble gas isotopic abundances. These investigations would provide key data for comparative planetology of terrestrial planets in our solar system and beyond