Antiepileptic Drug-Induced Bone Loss in Young Males

Abstract

The relationship between femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) and antiepileptic drug therapy in ambulatory, young male patients with epilepsy (ages 25 to 54 years, mean 45 yrs) was determined in an outpatient seizure clinic at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Keywords

• antiepileptic drug
• bone mineral density
• cause of bone loss