Guidelines for the correct use of the nomenclature of biochemical indices of bone status: a position statement of the Joint IOF Working Group and IFCC Committee on Bone Metabolism

Affiliations

• ¹ Laboratory of Experimental Biochemistry, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Italy.
• ² Department of Athletics, Strength and Conditioning, Poznań University of Physical Education, Poznań, Poland.
• ³ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁴ Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁵ MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• ⁶ NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ⁷ Division of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
• ⁸ Mellanby Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Integrated Research in Musculoskeletal Ageing, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
• ⁹ Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
• ¹⁰ Department of Clinical Sciences, Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
• ¹¹ Department of Orthopaedics, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
• ¹² INSERM Unit 1033, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France.
• ¹³ Mary McKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia.
• ¹⁴ International Institute for Biosensing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, U.C. Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.
• ¹⁶ Oregon Osteoporosis Center, Portland, OR, USA.
• ¹⁷ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Geffen School of Medicine UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ¹⁸ Clinical Biochemistry Department, KAT General Hospital, Kifissia, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁹ Laboratory for the Research of Musculoskeletal System "Th. Garofalidis", School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ²⁰ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
• ²¹ PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, WA, Australia.
• ²² Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Bone Metabolism, Klatovska Hospital, Klatovy, Czech Republic.
• ²³ Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Haematology, Faculty of Medicine Pilsen, Charles University Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
• ²⁴ Faculty of Health Care Studies, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
• ²⁵ Department of Clinical Chemistry, CIRM, University of Liège, CHU de Liège, Belgium.