Chapter 43, Problem 1ITD

Summary Introduction

To review:

The effect of a certain drug for an increase in the vertebral area among children having osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) causing bone growth in those children during a 12-month study.

Introduction:

As the name suggests, osteogenesis is a disorder of the bones in the human body due to gene mutation. Collagen is a protein that helps in making the bones strong, which are somehow affected by the defective genes, causing osteogenesis. The disease may be mild to severe in intensity, which means fewer to many bone-fractures per year.