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David Goltzman

David Goltzman

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Medicine

D-Index
116
Citations
52449
World Ranking
4339
National Ranking
169

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

David Goltzman is a researcher affiliated with McGill University in Canada, whose work predominantly falls within the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Their scholarly output includes 134 publications in Medicine, with specific contributions distributed across several subfields such as Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Oncology.

Their research topics cover key areas related to bone health and osteoporosis, with notable expertise in Bone health and osteoporosis research, Hip and Femur Fractures, and Vitamin D Research Studies. Additional topics investigated include Bone health and treatments, Bone and Joint Diseases, Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments, and Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress.

Frequent publication venues for David Goltzman include the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Osteoporosis International, International Journal of Biological Sciences, Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, and Free Radical Biology and Medicine. The number of publications in these venues highlights consistent scholarly activity in the bone and mineral research domain.

Their recent papers encompass:

  • "Update of the fracture risk prediction tool FRAX: a systematic review of potential cohorts and analysis plan" (2022), published in Osteoporosis International
  • "Previous fracture and subsequent fracture risk: a meta-analysis to update FRAX" (2023), published in Osteoporosis International
  • "Inhibition of Nrf2 degradation alleviates age-related osteoporosis induced by 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D deficiency" (2021), published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • "Bone Microarchitecture Phenotypes Identified in Older Adults Are Associated With Different Levels of Osteoporotic Fracture Risk" (2020), published in Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
  • "A meta-analysis of previous falls and subsequent fracture risk in cohort studies" (2024), published in Osteoporosis International

David Goltzman has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Dengshun Miao
  • Claudie Berger
  • William D. Leslie
  • Suzanne N. Morin
  • Jonathan D. Adachi

Among the recognitions awarded to David Goltzman are the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995, cited by the Academy of Science, and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Common genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency: a genome-wide association study

    Thomas J. Wang;Feng Zhang;J. Brent Richards;Bryan Kestenbaum

  • Primer on the metabolic bone diseases and disorders of mineral metabolism

    John P. Bilezikian;Roger Bouillon;Thomas Clemens;Juliet Compston

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • An atlas of genetic influences on osteoporosis in humans and mice

    John A Morris;John P Kemp;John P Kemp;Scott E Youlten;Laetitia Laurent

  • Targeted ablation of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D 1α-hydroxylase enzyme: Evidence for skeletal, reproductive, and immune dysfunction

    Dibyendu K. Panda;Dengshun Miao;Michel L. Tremblay;Jacinthe Sirois

  • A meta-analysis of trabecular bone score in fracture risk prediction and its relationship to FRAX.

    Eugene V McCloskey;Anders Odén;Nicholas C Harvey;William D Leslie

  • Relation between fractures and mortality: results from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study

    George Ioannidis;Alexandra Papaioannou;Wilma M Hopman;Noori Akhtar-Danesh

  • Inactivation of the 25-Hydroxyvitamin D 1α-Hydroxylase and Vitamin D Receptor Demonstrates Independent and Interdependent Effects of Calcium and Vitamin D on Skeletal and Mineral Homeostasis

    Dibyendu K. Panda;Dengshun Miao;Isabel Bolivar;Jiarong Li

  • Effect of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors on the Risk of Fracture

    J. Brent Richards;Alexandra Papaioannou;Jonathan D. Adachi;Lawrence Joseph

  • A meta-analysis of the association of fracture risk and body mass index in women

    Helena Johansson;John A. Kanis;Anders Odén;Eugene McCloskey

  • Vitamin D and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Study

    Lauren E. Mokry;Stephanie Ross;Omar S. Ahmad;Vincenzo Forgetta

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Inactivation of menin, a Smad3-interacting protein, blocks transforming growth factor type β signaling

    Hiroshi Kaji;Lucie Canaff;Jean-Jacques Lebrun;David Goltzman

  • Peak bone mass from longitudinal data: Implications for the prevalence, pathophysiology, and diagnosis of osteoporosis

    Claudie Berger;David Goltzman;Lisa Langsetmo;Lawrence Joseph

  • Cortical and trabecular bone microarchitecture as an independent predictor of incident fracture risk in older women and men in the Bone Microarchitecture International Consortium (BoMIC): a prospective study

    Elizabeth J Samelson;Kerry E Broe;Hanfei Xu;Laiji Yang

  • WNT16 Influences Bone Mineral Density, Cortical Bone Thickness, Bone Strength, and Osteoporotic Fracture Risk

    Hou-Feng Zheng;Jon H. Tobias;Emma Duncan;Emma Duncan;David M. Evans

  • Osteoblast-derived PTHrP is a potent endogenous bone anabolic agent that modifies the therapeutic efficacy of administered PTH 1–34

    Dengshun Miao;Bin He;Yebin Jiang;Tatsuya Kobayashi

  • Structural requirements for the growth factor activity of the amino-terminal domain of urokinase.

    Shafaat A. Rabbani;Andrew P. Mazar;Suzanne M. Bernier;Mahmudul Haq

  • Parathyroid hormone is essential for normal fetal bone formation

    Dengshun Miao;Bin He;Andrew C. Karaplis;David Goltzman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Adachi
Jonathan D. Adachi McMaster University
Robert G. Josse
Robert G. Josse University of Toronto
David A. Hanley
David A. Hanley University of Calgary
Geoffrey N. Hendy
Geoffrey N. Hendy McGill University Health Centre
William D. Leslie
William D. Leslie University of Manitoba
Alexandra Papaioannou
Alexandra Papaioannou McMaster University
J. Brent Richards
J. Brent Richards McGill University
Jacques P. Brown
Jacques P. Brown Université Laval
John H. White
John H. White McGill University
Claes Ohlsson
Claes Ohlsson University of Gothenburg

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