Endocrine Abstracts

Heart failure (HF) has been associated with bone loss and an increased risk of fragility fractures. Indeed, most of literature data on fractures were based on an historical and clinical approach focused on the identification of peripheral fractures, whereas the risk of vertebral fractures in this clinical setting is still unclear. In this study, we aimed at evaluating the prevalence of radiological vertebral fractures in 791 consecutive elderly and hospitalized patients (372 f...