Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In the year 2010, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has published a normative data for mone mineral density (BMD) measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanning. However, its impact on the diagnosis of osteoporosis when compared to currently used Caucasian database has not been analysed.Objectives: To study the effect of the newly generated ICMR database (ICMRD) on the diagnosis of osteoporosis compared with the Hol...

Introduction: Osteoporosis is a silent disease and fractures pose enormous medical and financial burden on ageing individuals. Also subjects of younger age are at risk for subnormal bone mineral density when they have systemic disorders like rheumatoid arthritis or on long-term medications like corticosteroids. Preventive measures can be initiated if osteoporosis is diagnosed and treated before any fracture occurs. Even after the first fracture has occurred, there are effectiv...