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"Anabolic Steroids"
I Have a Client Who . . .
A client is a body builder. He tells
his massage therapist he started
using anabolic steroids to help
him achieve his goals. Host Ruth
Werner discusses risks for the
client or the massage therapist,
how much of this is really our
business as MTs, and what this
means in relation to other possible
drug use among clients.
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Study Finds High Blood Pressure
Could Lead to Faster Bone Aging
A new study found that when high blood pressure was
induced in young mice, the mice suffered bone loss
and osteoporosis-related bone damage comparable to
older mice.
The study, which was presented on September 7, 2022,
at the American Heart Association's Hypertension Scientifi c
Sessions 2022, compared young mice with induced
hypertension to older mice without hypertension to assess
the potential relationship of hypertension and bone aging.
High blood pressure and osteoporosis are prevalent
diseases, and people may have both at the same time. In
this study, researchers examined infl ammation associated
with high blood pressure in mice and found it may be
connected to osteoporosis.
"Bone marrow is where both new bone and new
immune cells are produced. We suspect that more
proinfl ammatory immune cells in the bone marrow
may be leading to damage of the bone and making
it weaker," says Elizabeth Maria Hennen, lead study
author and PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at
Vanderbilt University. "By understanding how hypertension
contributes to osteoporosis, we may be able to reduce the
risk of osteoporosis and better protect people later in life
from having fragility fractures and a lower quality of life."
The results of the study led Hennen to say, "We should
screen for osteoporosis in people with high blood pressure."
Read the full study at newsroom.heart.org/news/high-
blood-pressure-may-accelerate-bone-aging.
