Endocrine Abstracts

The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP2) defined in 2018 ‘sarcopenia as muscle disease (muscle failure), with low muscle strength overtaking the role of low muscle mass as a principal determinant’; sarcopenia increases risk of falls and fractures, impairs ability to perform activities of daily living, leads to mobility disorders and low quality of life and death. The diagnosis is confirmed by low muscle quantity or quality. The muscle quanti...

Background: Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the most frequent type of well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC) and frequently poses a management dilemma. Its indolent behavior associated with high long term survival support the trend towards a more conservative management approach. The authors present a case of isolated bone metastases as the form of presentation of papillary thyroid carcinoma. A 61-year-old man was admitted with complaints of lower back pain for the previo...

Trabecular bone score (TBS) is a recent noninvasive analytical method, based upon DXA images, related to bone microarchitecture or bone quality; together, TBS and DXA may evidence bone strength. Falls and osteoporotic fractures increase with ageing, while both BMD and vitamin D levels slowly decline. Data about the influence of vitamin D on the TBS are scarce.Aim: To evaluate the influence of the blood vitamin D levels on the TBS in normal men.<p cla...

Increased recognition of the morbidity and mortality due to osteoporosis in men are main issues of public health. Ageing and the propensity to falls are the main risk factors for osteoporotic fractures in men; moreover, hypogonadism is an important secondary cause of low bone mineral density (BMD), but very little is known about the effect of hypogonadism treatment on the BMD.Objective: The aim was to study the impact on BMD of the treatment of male hypo...

Osteoporosis and diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) have severe health consequences, with high morbidity and mortality risks.Aims: To study the differences of the sex steroid hormones levels and the free androgen index (FAI) in DM2 men with low BMD and osteoporosis and their relationships with BMD.Materials and methods: In 317 men with DM2, the BMD (g/cm2) was evaluated at the lumbar spine (L1-L4), at t...