Predicting the Severity of Adverse Events on Osteoporosis Drugs Using Attribute Weighted Logistic Regression

Osteoporosis is a serious bone disease that affects many people worldwide. Various drugs have been used to treat osteoporosis. However, these drugs may cause severe adverse events in patients. Adverse drug events are harmful reactions caused by drug usage and remain one of the leading causes of death in many countries. Predicting serious adverse drug reactions in the early stages can help save patients' lives and reduce healthcare costs. Classification methods are commonly used to predict the severity of adverse events. These methods usually assume independence among attributes, which may not be practical in real-world applications. In this paper, a new attribute weighted logistic regression is proposed to predict the severity of adverse drug events. Our method relaxes the assumption of independence among the attributes. An evaluation was performed on osteoporosis data obtained from the United States Food and Drug Administration databases. The results showed that our method achieved a higher recognition performance and outperformed baseline methods in predicting the severity of adverse drug events.

The temporomandibular joints disorders in patients with osteoporosis

Background:

Osteoporosis is a skeletal and progressive behavioral disease with physically and psychologically significant consequences.

Aims of the Study:

Evaluate the presence and effects of Temporomandibular Joints Disorders in osteoporotic patients.

Materials and Methods:

Fifty-eight (58) patients with osteoporosis participated in this study as they were already diagnosed by Rheumatologists, physical and sport Rehabilitation physicians in Merjan Medical city/Babylon – Iraq between period February and August 2019.

Results:

Twenty-seven (27) patients with T. M. J clicking as anterior disk displacements, Seventeen (17) patients with spasm in muscles of mastication, and then finally Fourteen (14) out of 58 patients with subluxation and dislocation.

Conclusions:

Osteoporosis can have a significant impact on oral health.

Endocrinology of bone/brain crosstalk

Bone metabolism is regulated by the action of two skeletal cells: osteoblasts and osteoclasts. This process is controlled by many genetic, hormonal and lifestyle factors, but today more and more studies have allowed us to identify a neuronal regulation system termed 'bone-brain crosstalk', which highlights a direct relationship between bone tissue and the nervous system. The first documentation of an anatomic relationship between nerves and bone was made via a wood cut by Charles Estienne in Paris in 1545. His diagram demonstrated nerves entering and leaving the bones of a skeleton. Later, several studies were conducted on bone innervation and, as of today, many observations on the regulation of bone remodeling by neurons and neuropeptides that reside in the CNS have created a new research field, that is, neuroskeletal research.