Endocrine Abstracts

With HAART (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy) introduction, HIV infection history has radically changed. Increased survival has led to new complications, including osteoporosis. The pathogenesis of osteoporosis in HIV patients is multifactorial: virus, HAART, smoking, alcohol, physical inactivity, comorbidities, and hypogonadism can interact in bone depletion.Aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of osteoporosis, vertebral fractures (VF) ...