Endocrine Abstracts

Our aims were to follow the longitudinal changes after 5-year in femoral neck (FN), femoral trochanter (FT), L2, L3, L4 and L2–L4 bone mineral density (BMD) in Spanish postmenopausal women and to study whether the polymorphism BsmI in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) may influence these results.We conducted a 5-year prospective study of BMD and its change in 174 women, aged 43–78 years. BMD was measured by densitometry. The women were members of th...