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Previous Volume 342:1683 June 1, 2000 Number 22

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Edited by John S. Adams and Barbara P. Lukert. 308 pp. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1999. $180. ISBN 0-7923-8366-4.

Osteoporosis causes 1.5 million fractures and costs more than $14 billion annually in the United States alone; with these rates still increasing, it is a worthy subject for discussion. This book is part of a series intended to update endocrinologists about the latest developments in osteoporosis. The combination of three themes — genetics, prevention, and treatment — in a book of this size is a very ambitious project in an area as exciting and fast-moving as osteoporosis research.

The first section, consisting of four chapters, deals with genetics and focuses primarily on skeletal morphogenesis, with a frightening list of proteins . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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