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ea0049ep219 | Bone & Osteoporosis | ECE2017

Bone densitometry of type 2 diabetics (about 290 patients)

Abderrahmane Samir Ait , Kemali Zahra , Hatri Sihem , Haffaf Elmahdi , Sobhi Nacer , Brakni Lila , Oudjit Brahim

Introduction: The improvement of the survival of diabetics is accompanied by the emergence of bone fragility which can directly affect, at various levels, the various components of the bone tissue leading to quantitative and qualitative anomalies. The effects of type 2 diabetes on bone are complex because they are associated with the sometimes associated disorders of nutrition, weight and age. Densitometric studies in this context are quite contradictory. We proposed to study ...