Sarcopenia, Osteoporosis and Fractures: Perspectives on Musculoskeletal Aging of an Aging Musculoskeletal Clinical Researcher

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Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle mass and function, is often considered in the context of osteoporosis and fractures.  Despite this, progress in clinical recognition and treatment of sarcopenia has been limited.  Sarcopenia today seems comparable to osteoporosis prior to 1990; a disease without widespread clinical diagnosis for which no pharmacologic therapy exists.  Moreover, the pathogenesis of sarcopenia and osteoporosis are strikingly similar.  Nonetheless, consideration of sarcopenia by osteoporosis clinicians can be done today; reasonable current, and potential future, clinical approaches will be considered.

OBJECTIVES
  1. Make use of a syndrome approach to reducing “osteoporosis-related” fractures  
  2. Appreciate challenges in operationalizing the diagnosis of sarcopenia  
  3. Summarize rational approaches to non-pharmacologic fracture risk reduction therapy including calcium, vitamin D, protein and exercise/falls risk reduction
LOCATION

Georgian room

Neil Binkley, MD, CCD

Professor of Medicine

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Neil Binkley earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin and subsequently trained in Internal Medicine at the Marshfield Clinic. After several years in private practice, he returned to the University of Wisconsin and completed a Geriatrics fellowship. He is a Professor in the Divisions of Geriatrics and Endocrinology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is also Director of the UW Osteoporosis Clinical Research Program and Associate Director of the UW Institute on Aging. He is past President of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry, Associate Editor of Osteoporosis International and a member of the International Osteoporosis Foundation Committee of Scientific Advisors. His current research involves improvement in 25(OH)D measurement, evaluation of approaches to optimize assessment of vitamin D status, evaluation of functional assessment in older adults and the importance of sarcopenia in fracture risk. Dr. Binkley has published over 300 papers, served on expert committees and panels for AACE, ASBMR, IOF and ISCD.

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