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...