Research

Scientific advances are bringing new insight and answers. Below, please find a list of publications recommended by our Medical and Scientific Committee and whose insights inform the content you find on our pages. As new research emerges, we will include it here.

• Current and future perspectives on pregnancy and lactation-associated osteoporosis, Gak N., Ali A., Dhillo W.S, Keen R. & Comninos A.N.; Front. Endocrinol, 5 December 2024, Sec. Bone Research, Volume 15 – 2024. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2024.1494965.

• Clinical Features, Incidence and Treatment Outcome in PAO: A Single-Centre Experience over Two Decades, Elizabeth Orhadje, Kathryn Berg, Barbara Hauser, Stuart H Ralston, Calcified Tissue Int, 2023 Dec; 113(6):591-596

• Clinical presentation, risk factors and management of pregnancy-associated

  osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Orhadje E, Makaram N, Berg K, Hauser B, Ralston SH. Osteoporosis Int (2025) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07479-0

• Pregnancy and Lactation Associated Osteoporosis, Sarah A. Hardcastle,

  Calcified Tissue International 2022, 110:531-545.

• Orhadje, E., Berg, K., Whitehead, K., Hauser, B., & Ralston, S. H. (2025). Height loss, back pain and severe pain are highly predictive of pregnancy associated osteoporosis. Osteoporosis International, 36(10), 1719–1724. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-025-07618-7