Assessment using serum insulin-like growth factor-I and bone mineral density is useful for detecting prevalent vertebral fractures in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Ippei KanazawaM NotsuH MiyakeK TanakaT Sugimoto

Published in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2018)

This is the first study to show that in addition to BMD measurement, the assessment using serum IGF-I is useful to estimate the prevalence of VF in patients with T2DM.

Keyphrases

bone mineral density
postmenopausal women
body composition
growth hormone
type diabetes
adipose tissue
cell proliferation
signaling pathway
skeletal muscle