Endocrine Abstracts

Bone remodeling is a fine tuned process optimizing bone biomechanical properties. Peak bone mass is reached in early adult life, where after bone mass declines in both sexes leading to an increasing risk for low energy fractures. The understanding of bone remodeling has led to pharmacologic treatment of osteoporosis, being different antiresorptive modalities or anabolic treatment with PTH - or analogues. Inherited osteosclerotic bone disorders have been diagnosed since the int...

Jens Bollerslev is head of the Section of Specialized Endocrinology at Oslo University Hospital, and Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE), former chair of the ESE Education Committee (2014–17), chair of the ESE committee for Post Graduate Courses (2016–19) and is currently chair of the newly es...