Bone health status in Indian women

[...]studies, such as the one by Kumar et al[7] in this issue emphasize the usefulness of serum biomarkers of bone turnover (BTM) to evaluate bone health. Fracture risk is increased if a patient has both low BMD and an increased bone turnover. [...]in clinical practice, increased bone turnover markers in the presence of a low BMD would favour initiation of treatment for osteoporosis. [...]in clinical trials, biochemical markers provide a superior signal-to-noise ratio, and therefore, these may be used to shorten duration of trials and to decrease study cohorts in size, although the variability of BTMs restricts their use at the individual level [12] .