ea0070aep222 | Bone and Calcium | ECE2020
Rui Mascarenhas Mário
, Barbosa Ana Paula
, Winzenrieth Renaud
Sex steroid hormones play a pleomorphic role in preservation of BMD. The BMD, the blood circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], testosterone and estradiol levels may decline with age and to contribute to bone fragility. Low vitamin D is associated with increased falls number and fractures.Recently, a new software solution, 3D-SHAPER - allows measurements of both trabecular and cortical bone as well as 3D images -, it incorporates a model-bas...