Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is defined as a chronic, slowly progressive disease characterized by airflow obstruction that dose not markedly change over several months. Clinical observations in patients with COPD have noticed that those patients have muscular pain accompanied with loss in the bone mineral density which can be assured by Bone Densitometry and some laboratory tests.Aim of the study: To study the use of Bone Dens...