Endocrine Abstracts

Osteoporosis is defined as low bone mineral density and/or poor bone microarchitecture associated with increased risk of fractures. This chronic disease mainly affects postmenopausal women, but also older men, being increasingly considered as an age-related morbidity. Chronic glucocorticoid therapy and diabetes mellitus are also concomittant causes of osteopenia in aging subjects. The fact that osteoporosis-related fractures accompany the increased life span imposes a major ch...