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Record W3112221347 · doi:10.3389/fendo.2020.00576

Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis: Why Kids Are Different

2020· review· en· W3112221347 on OpenAlexafffund
Leanne M. Ward

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Endocrinology · 2020
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAdrenal Hormones and Disorders
Canadian institutionsChildren's Hospital of Eastern OntarioUniversity of Ottawa
FundersShriners Hospitals for ChildrenCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchUniversity of Ottawa
KeywordsGlucocorticoidOsteoporosisMedicineEndocrinologyInternal medicine

Abstract

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") Consortium launched a 6 year, multi-center observational cohort study in GC-treated children. This study unveiled numerous key clinical-biological principles about GC-induced osteoporosis (GIO), many of which are unique to the growing skeleton. This was important, because most GIO recommendations to date have been guided by adult studies, and therefore do not acknowledge the pediatric-specific principles that inform monitoring, diagnosis and treatment strategies in the young. Some of the most informative observations from the STOPP study were that vertebral fractures are the hallmark of pediatric GIO, they occur early in the GC treatment course, and they are frequently asymptomatic (thereby undetected in the absence of routine monitoring). At the same time, some children have the unique, growth-mediated ability to restore normal vertebral body dimensions following vertebral fractures. This is an important index of recovery, since spontaneous vertebral body reshaping may preclude the need for osteoporosis therapy. Furthermore, we now better understand that children with poor growth, older children with less residual growth potential, and children with ongoing bone health threats have less potential for vertebral body reshaping following spine fractures, which can result in permanent vertebral deformity if treatment is not initiated in a timely fashion. Therefore, pediatric GIO management is now predicated upon early identification of vertebral fractures in those at risk, and timely intervention when there is limited potential for spontaneous recovery. A single, low-trauma long bone fracture can also signal an osteoporotic event, and a need for treatment. Intravenous bisphosphonates are currently the recommended therapy for pediatric GC-induced bone fragility, typically prescribed to children with limited potential for medication-unassisted recovery. It is recognized, however, that even early identification of bone fragility, combined with timely introduction of intravenous bisphosphonate therapy, may not completely rescue the osteoporosis in those with the most aggressive forms, opening the door to novel strategies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.059

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.311
Teacher spread0.273 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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