Evaluation of bone metabolism and bone mass in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus


Oz S. G., Guven G. S., Kilicarslan A., Calik N., BEYAZIT Y., Sozen T.

JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, cilt.98, sa.10, ss.1598-1604, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

Özet

The objectives of this study were to determine whether type-2 diabetes was associated witha higher bone mineral density (BMD) in men and women and to evaluate the differences in mineral metabolism between diabetic and normal subjects by using biochemical bone turnover markers.