Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Central obesity and the consequent metabolic syndrome have global devastating effect on the health system due to their strong association with type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disorder. There are contradictory results about the influence of insulin resistance and visceral adipose tissue on bone phenotype. The study was designed to evaluate the association between bone quality and bone mineral density (BMD) with bone marrow adipose tissue (MAT) as well ...