Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In previous studies, it was noted that increased serum growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) lead to the increased vertebral fractures risk in patients with acromegaly. This may be explained by the altered quality of bone rather than bone mineral density (BMD) loss. Trabecular bone score (TBS) is an easily available tool to obtain some surrogate information on bone microarchitecture from a routine DXA.Objective: To ev...