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Overview

Susan L. Greenspan is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant body of work in orthopedics and sports medicine, surgery, physiology, oncology, and physical therapy, sports therapy, and rehabilitation.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Bone health and osteoporosis research
  • Hip and femur fractures
  • Nutrition and health in aging
  • Bone health and treatments
  • Balance, gait, and falls prevention
  • Bone and joint diseases
  • Injury epidemiology and prevention

Susan L. Greenspan has contributed to several notable publications, including:

  • A Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Strategy to Prevent Serious Fall Injuries, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Effect of a Multifactorial Fall Injury Prevention Intervention on Patient Well-Being: The STRIDE Study, 2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Cost-effectiveness of secondary fracture prevention intervention for Medicare beneficiaries, 2021, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • The TOPAZ study: a home-based trial of zoledronic acid to prevent fractures in neurodegenerative parkinsonism, 2021, npj Parkinson's Disease
  • Application of Cut-Points for Low Muscle Strength and Lean Mass in Mobility-Limited Older Adults, 2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Frequent co-authors include Subashan Perera, Neil M. Resnick, Nami Safai Haeri, Shalender Bhasin, and Thomas G. Travison.

The scientist's work is often published in venues such as:

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Osteoporosis International
  • Archives of Osteoporosis
  • Bone
  • New England Journal of Medicine

Best Publications

  • The effects of parathyroid hormone and alendronate alone or in combination in postmenopausal osteoporosis

    Dennis M. Black;Susan L. Greenspan;Kristine E. Ensrud;Lisa Palermo

  • One year of alendronate after one year of parathyroid hormone (1-84) for osteoporosis

    D. M. Black;J. P. Bilezikian;K. E. Ensrud;S. L. Greenspan

  • Fall severity and bone mineral density as risk factors for hip fracture in ambulatory elderly.

    Susan L. Greenspan;Elizabeth R. Myers;Lauri A. Maitland;Neil M. Resnick

  • Managing Osteoporosis in Patients on Long-Term Bisphosphonate Treatment: Report of a Task Force of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.

    Robert A. Adler;Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan;Douglas C. Bauer;Pauline M. Camacho

  • Therapeutic equivalence of alendronate 70 mg once-weekly and alendronate 10 mg daily in the treatment of osteoporosis

    T. Schnitzer;H. G. Bone;G. Crepaldi;S. Adami

  • Changes in bone density and turnover explain the reductions in incidence of nonvertebral fractures that occur during treatment with antiresorptive agents.

    Marc C. Hochberg;Susan Greenspan;Richard D. Wasnich;Paul Miller

  • Gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity leads to an increase in bone turnover and a decrease in bone mass.

    Penelope S. Coates;John D. Fernstrom;Madelyn H. Fernstrom;Philip R. Schauer

  • Obesity is not protective against fracture in postmenopausal women: GLOW.

    Juliet E. Compston;Nelson B. Watts;Roland D. Chapurlat;Cyrus Cooper

  • Effect of Recombinant Human Parathyroid Hormone (1-84) on Vertebral Fracture and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis: A Randomized Trial

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  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Medical Guidelines for Clinical Practice for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

    Nelson Watts;John Bilezikian;Pauline Camacho;Susan Greenspan

  • Effects of teriparatide and risedronate on new fractures in post-menopausal women with severe osteoporosis (VERO): a multicentre, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised controlled trial.

    David L. Kendler;Fernando Marin;Cristiano A. F. Zerbini;Luis A. Russo

  • Osteoporosis in Men with Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism

    Joel S. Finkelstein;Anne Klibanski;Robert M. Neer;Susan L. Greenspan

  • Bone Loss after Initiation of Androgen Deprivation Therapy in Patients with Prostate Cancer

    Susan L. Greenspan;Penelope Coates;Susan M. Sereika;Joel B. Nelson

  • Fall Direction, Bone Mineral Density, and Function: Risk Factors for Hip Fracture in Frail Nursing Home Elderly

    Susan L Greenspan;Elizabeth R Myers;Elizabeth R Myers;Douglas P Kiel;Robert A Parker;Robert A Parker

  • Serum CTX: a new marker of bone resorption that shows treatment effect more often than other markers because of low coefficient of variability and large changes with bisphosphonate therapy.

    H. N. Rosen;A. C. Moses;J. Garber;I. D. Iloputaife

  • Alendronate and estrogen effects in postmenopausal women with low bone mineral density

    Henry G. Bone;Susan L. Greenspan;Clark McKeever;Norman Bell

  • Effect of Once-Weekly Oral Alendronate on Bone Loss in Men Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: A Randomized Trial

    Susan L. Greenspan;Joel B. Nelson;Donald L. Trump;Neil M. Resnick

  • Efficacy and safety of single-dose zoledronic acid for osteoporosis in frail elderly women: a randomized clinical trial.

    Susan L. Greenspan;Subashan Perera;Mary Anne Ferchak;David A. Nace

  • Osteoporosis in Men with Hyperprolactinemic Hypogonadism

    Susan L. Greenspan;Robert M. Neer;E. Chester Ridgway;Anne Klibanski

  • The Effect of Thyroid Hormone on Skeletal Integrity

    Susan L. Greenspan;Francis S. Greenspan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth G. Saag
Kenneth G. Saag University of Alabama at Birmingham
Cyrus Cooper
Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton
Roland Chapurlat
Roland Chapurlat Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jonathan D. Adachi
Jonathan D. Adachi McMaster University
Juliet E. Compston
Juliet E. Compston University of Cambridge
Adolfo Diez-Perez
Adolfo Diez-Perez Autonomous University of Barcelona
Frederick A. Anderson
Frederick A. Anderson University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Steven Boonen
Steven Boonen KU Leuven
Andrea Z. LaCroix
Andrea Z. LaCroix University of California, San Diego
Clifford J. Rosen
Clifford J. Rosen Maine Medical Center

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