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In patients with an acute gout flare who have stage 3–4 CKD or are on anticoagulation, what is your preferred first-line treatment?

Do you prefer low-dose colchicine, oral steroids, intra-articular steroids, other?

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What are the clinical prompts that lead you to consider deprescribing bisphosphonate therapy in older adults with osteoporosis?

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Do you recommend vitamin K2 supplements in patients with osteoporosis?

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How do you approach decision-making around initiation of osteoporosis therapy in patients with advanced dementia?

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What patient factors are most important when considering who needs a broader workup for osteoporosis prior to starting therapy?

Do you routinely rule out secondary causes of osteoporosis (i.e., TSH) in all patients prior to starting therapy? If you work up all patients, what la...

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When stopping denosumab and transitioning to PO bisphosphonate, do you wait for 6 months after the last denosumab injection to start PO bisphosphonate?

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Is it necessary to prescribe a steroid taper after two weeks of high-dose prednisone (60 mg daily)?

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Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2022 Dec 02

Perioperative Evaluation and Management of Patients on Glucocorticoids.

Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021 Apr 20

Glucocorticoid Withdrawal-An Overview on When and How to Diagnose Adrenal Insufficiency in Clinical Practice.

Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2025 Mar 09

Denosumab discontinuation in the clinic: implications of rebound bone turnover and emerging strategies to prevent bone loss and fractures.

JAMA internal medicine, 2022 Jan 01

Time to Benefit of Bisphosphonate Therapy for the Prevention of Fractures Among Postmenopausal Women With Osteoporosis: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.

Annals of internal medicine, 2023 Jan 03

Effectiveness and Safety of Treatments to Prevent Fractures in People With Low Bone Mass or Primary Osteoporosis: A Living Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis for the American College of Physicians.

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.), 2001-04

Japanese fermented soybean food as the major determinant of the large geographic difference in circulating levels of vitamin K2: possible implications for hip-fracture risk.

International journal for vitamin and nutrition research. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Vitamin- und Ernahrungsforschung. Journal international de vitaminologie et de nutrition, 2022 Aug 30

Role of vitamin K2 in bone-vascular crosstalk.

Frontiers in endocrinology, 2025 Nov 05

The effect of vitamin K2 supplementation on bone turnover biochemical markers in postmenopausal osteoporosis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Frontiers in public health, 2022 Aug 11

Efficacy of vitamin K2 in the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

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