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  • Title: Urinary excretion of pyridinoline crosslinks correlates with bone turnover measured on iliac crest biopsy in patients with vertebral osteoporosis.
    Author: Delmas PD, Schlemmer A, Gineyts E, Riis B, Christiansen C.
    Journal: J Bone Miner Res; 1991 Jun; 6(6):639-44. PubMed ID: 1887826.
    Abstract:
    Vertebral osteoporosis, a common disorder in elderly women, is characterized by a wide spectrum of bone turnover abnormalities on iliac crest biopsy. The level of bone formation can be assessed noninvasively by measuring serum osteocalcin, whereas conventional biochemical markers of bone resorption lack specificity and do not reflect bone resorption assessed from histology. We measured the urinary excretion of pyridinoline crosslinks Pyr and D-Pyr, a specific marker of bone and cartilage collagen degradation, along with serum osteocalcin and urinary hydroxyproline, in 36 elderly women with vertebral osteoporosis who had a simultaneous iliac crest biopsy. Urinary pyridinoline crosslinks, but not hydroxyproline, correlated significantly with histologic resorption, assessed by the osteoclast surface (r = 0.35, p less than 0.05 for Pyr; r = 0.46, p less than 0.01 for D-Pyr). In addition, Pyr and D-Pyr were correlated with the bone formation rate as well as serum osteocalcin, with correlation coefficients ranging from 0.69 to 0.80, p less than 0.0001. These data indicate that Pyr and D-Pyr are sensitive markers of bone turnover in elderly women with vertebral osteoporosis. The poor correlation between the level of urinary collagen crosslinks and histological assessment of bone resorption indicates the low sensitivity of iliac crest histomorphometry in the measurement of resorption rate of the skeleton.
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