11.   It is concluded that HRT is effective in prevention of bone loss in postmenopausal women with inflammatory bowel disease.

12.   Hormone replacement therapy is effective in the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal bone loss.

13.   This dose of oestrogen has previously been shown to be the minimum required to prevent bone loss in normal menopausal women.

14.   Each patient had three measurements of bone mineral density and rates of bone loss were estimated by linear regression for each subject.

15.   It shows that oral treatment with a standard dose of oestrogen not only prevents bone loss but after two years produced a significant improvement in bone density.

16.   There is already a large amount of data on normal women, which shows that HRT prevents bone loss after the menopause.

17.   In some patients the use of prednisolone may have resulted in net bone loss.

18.   A recent study has shown that HRT can be effective in preventing bone loss in patients receiving concurrent glucocorticosteroids.

19.   We have shown that not only can bone loss be prevented in inflammatory bowel disease with hormone replacement therapy but significant improvements can be achieved.

20.   It is not clear at the moment if bone loss occurs among people with bulimia.