Osteosarcopenia: Understanding Bone, Muscle, and Fat Interactions

Features:

• Presents diagnostic and therapeutic tips that facilitate the design and implementation of new care pathways, impacting the wellbeing of our older population
• Provides cross-disciplinary understanding by experts from the bone/osteoporosis field and the muscle/sarcopenia field
• Covers muscle and bone biology, mesenchymal stem cells, age-related changes and cross-talk between muscle, fat and bone, falls and fracture risk, glucose metabolism, diagnosis, imaging, and genetics of osteosarcopenia

Table Of Contents:

1. Muscle and bone biology - Similarities and differences
2. Mesenchymal stem cells as regulators of bone, muscle and fat formation
3. Age-related changes in muscle, fat and bone: Their impact on metabolism and function.
4. Cross-talk between muscle, fat and bone
5. Falls and fracture risk assessment - The role of osteoporosis, obesity and sarcopenia.
6. Good and bad fat in osteosarcopenia
7. Glucose metabolism and osteosarcopenia
8. Diagnosis of osteosarcopenia - Clinical
9. Diagnosis of osteosarcopenia - Imaging
10. Genetics of osteosarcopenia
11. Non-pharmacological interventions for osteosarcopenia
12. Pharmacological treatments of osteosarcopenia
13. Social impact of osteosarcopenia
14. Models of care for falls and fracture prevention