Research progress on drugs in osteoporosis therapy / 药学实践杂志

ABSTRACT

Osteoporosis (OP) is a systemic bone metabolism disease characterized by a systemic impairment of bone mass ,strength ,and microarchitecture ,which will be result in increasing the propensity of fragility fractures .In recent years , OP becomes a worldwide health problem and a hotspot in medical research due to its increasing incidence .Anti-resorptive drugs inhibit osteoclast differentiation and maturation in order to reduce bone resorption ;Bone-anabolic drugs promote the bone for-mation function of osteoblast and reconstruct bone tissue ;Bone mineralization-acceleration drugs are the basic material for pre-vention and treatment of osteoporosis ,including calcium and vitamin D ;Strontium ranelate is the representative drug of un-coupling agents .In this paper ,the current progress of osteoporosis treatments were reviewed including these proposed drugs .