The Impact of COVID-19 in Bone Metabolism: Basic and Clinical Aspects

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Abstract

The use of standard procedures for the diagnosis of osteoporosis and assessment of fracture risk significantly decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, while the incidence of fragility fractures was mostly unaltered. Both COVID-19 per se and its treatments are associated with a negative impact on bone health. Preclinical models show that mice infected with SARS-CoV2 even without symptoms display loss of trabecular bone mass two weeks post infection, due to increased numbers of osteoclasts. Osteoporosis medications do not aggravate the clinical course of COVID-19, while preclinical data suggests possible beneficial effects of some therapies. While vitamin D deficiency is clearly associated with a worse clinical course of COVID-19, evidence of improved patient outcome with vitamin D supplementation is lacking. Osteoporosis treatment should not be generally discontinued, and recommendations for substituting therapies are available. Osteoporosis therapies do not interfere with the efficacy or side-effect profiles of COVID-19 vaccines and should not be stopped or indefinitely delayed because of vaccination.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)540-548
Number of pages9
JournalHormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme
Volume54
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

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Scopus 85134937731
unpaywall 10.1055/a-1825-9641
WOS 000826488800001
Mendeley 6bdf6f75-ca9e-32e7-81e4-00ff20a855c0
ORCID /0000-0002-8691-8423/work/142236008

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  • Animals, COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccines, Fractures, Bone/complications, Humans, Mice, Osteoporosis/drug therapy, Pandemics, RNA, Viral/therapeutic use, SARS-CoV-2, Vitamin D/therapeutic use, osteopenia, vaccines, vitamin D, bone, calcium homeostasis, osteoporosis, SARS-CoV2, fractures

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