Endocrine Abstracts

Several wrong conceptions persits with respect to male osteoporosis which unfortunately lead to under- diagnosis as well as under- treatment of this disease. Osteoporosis is still considered a female disorder. However, osteoporosis is not a rare condition especially in elderly and/or hypogonadal men. Moreover, fractures in elderly men are even more strongly associated with mortality than in women. Most of the risk factors for osteoporosis are also similar in men compared to wo...