Osteoporosis y densidad mineral ósea baja en pacientes con artritis reumatoide, con ingesta de corticoides. Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca.2018

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory, sometimes refractory disease that may require low doses of glucocorticoids to relieve signs and symptoms, a drug that could produce a decrease in bone mass and osteoporosis with risk of fracture. OBJECTIVE: to determine the frequency of osteoporosis (OP) and low bone mineral density in patients with RA with intake of low doses of corticosteroids from Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca 2018. METHODOLOGY: a retrospective descriptive, cross-sectional study in which the frequency of OP and low bone mineral density will be established in a sample of 161 patients diagnosed with RA treated with low doses of glucocorticoids (<7.5mg), who come to the external consultation of the rheumatology department in the outpatient area of the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso (HVCM), in the period from May 2017 to April 2018. The diagnosis of PO and decreased bone mineral density will be determined with the results of the double energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA, for its acronym in English). The statistical analysis will be through basal tables in addition to graphs and the Chi square test that allows to compare the observed distribution of the data. RESULTS: the study will establish the frequency of OP and low bone mineral density in patients with RA who take low doses of corticosteroids that go to the rheumatology department in the outpatient area of the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso in the period between May 2017 to April 2018.