Biochemical markers of bone formation in the study of postmenopausal osteoporosis.
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| Abstract |
A comparative study was performed on the sensitivity of the determination of the available biochemical markers of bone formation--total and bone alkaline phosphatase (TAP and bAP, respectively), osteocalcin (BGP), procollagen I aminoterminal propeptide (PINP) and procollagen I carboxyterminal propeptide (PICP)--in the study of postmenopausal osteoporosis. The comparison between PINP and PICP, due to the recent development of the amino-terminal assay, is of special interest. The study included 26 untreated osteoporotic postmenopausal women, age 59 +/- 6 years (range 46-69 years) and 17 healty control postmenopausal women, age 56 +/- 7 years (range 48-70 years). We found a significant increase in the levels of bAP (p = 0.0021), BGP (p = 0.041), PINP (p = 0.0001) and PCIP (p = 0.0073), but not in the levels of TAP (p = 0.3389), in osteoporotic patients with respect to the control group. Serum PINP and bAP showed the highest diagnostic accuracy among the markers of bone formation studies, as can be deduced from the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves. In spite of their similar origin (amino-terminal and carboxy-terminal release from a procollagen molecule), the results obtained by measuring levels of PINP are significantly better than those found with PICP.
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| Authors | C Dominguez Cabrera, M Sosa Henríquez, M L Traba, E Alvarez Villafañe, C de la Piedra |
| Journal | Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (Osteoporos Int) Vol. 8 Issue 2 Pg. 147-51 ( 1998) ISSN: 0937-941X [Print] England |
| PMID | 9666938 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article) |
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