Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Immune check-point inhibitors (ICI) can cause adverse events in many organs due to the activation of T-cells. Data on the effect of ICI on bones and incidence of fracture is still scarce.Aim: To quantify the rate of osteoporotic fracture before and after the use of ICI in cancer patients.Methods: We retrospectively retrieved pertinent data of all patients who were treated with ICI between 2015 and 2023 at the Tel-Aviv...

Background: Among the various ethnicities in the Israeli mosaic, the Ethiopian community is the most recently settled, with an immigration that started less than 40 years ago. Largely young, this 160,000-member community comprises nonetheless about 25,000 persons 50 years or older, virtually all born in Ethiopia. Despite this growing aging population, there is no knowledge regarding osteoporotic fractures in this unique East African ethnic group, not even from data originating...