Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is known to be associated with a lower trabecular bone score (TBS) and an increased risk of fracture. However, little is known regarding whether it is associated with poor bone results in pre-diabetic individuals. Despite the fact that both IFG and IGT are characterized by insulin resistance and β-cell dysfunction, the metabolic abnormalities are quite distinct between the two disorders. Impaired fasting glucose (IFG) was marked by dysfun...