Alison J. Black

TL;DR: Patients received azathioprine, 2 to 3 mg/kg of body weight per day, as second-line therapy; some patients were also prescribed oral corticosteroids, and the hypothesis that molecular analysis of thiopurine methyltransferase may be a useful way to identify patients at risk for toxicity from thiopirine medication was proposed.

TL;DR: Testing whether daily doses of vitamin D at 400 or 1000 IU/d for 1 yr affected conventional markers of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and improving vitamin D status through dietary supplementation is unlikely to reduce CVD risk factors.

TL;DR: Two-year potassium citrate supplementation does not reduce bone turnover or increase BMD in healthy postmenopausal women, which suggests that alkali provision does not explain any long-term benefit of fruit and vegetable intake on bone.

TL;DR: Diet appears to attenuate the seasonal variation of vitamin D status in early postmenopausal women at northerly latitude where quality of sunlight for production of Vitamin D is diminished.

TL;DR: This review looks at current evidence to support the inverse relation between osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, concentrating on studies published since 1998, and summarizes previous large studies investigating this relation.