ea0020p245 | Bone/Calcium | ECE2009
Rasic-Milutinovic Zorica
, Perunicic-Pekovic Gordana
, Stojanovic Olivera
, Tica Jelena
, Popovic Vesna
, Vujovic Marina
, Gluvic Zoran
Aim/hypothesis: Chronic renal failure maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients are at risk for low bone mineral density (BMD) and fractures. Parathyroid hormone (iPTH) plays a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of uremic bone disease, but in healthy population body weight and particularly body composition are more important determinants of bone mass.Patients and methods: We studied BMD (results were recorded as g/cm2) and T score using D...