Recently the medical community got to acknowledge that, al­though not as relevant as in women, male osteoporosis is an epidemiologically relevant feature of the disease and one out of three osteoporosis fractures occurs in the male population. Aim of this study was to evaluate bone mineral density and bone metabolism markers in a selected series [...]

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Clinical and laboratory data of patients and controls are report­ed in Table I. BMD was reduced in 16 (64%) out of 25 patients: 5 patients (20%) could be classified as osteoporotic and 11 patients (44%) osteopenic on the basis of at least one measurement. Table II reports mean BMD values for lumbar spine (LS) and [...]

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In a one year period we studied 98 liver patients consecutively admitted to the III Department of Internal Medicine, Federico II University, Naples, Italy. Among them we selected 25 patients affected by biopsy-proven chronic hepatitis or liver cirrhosis, virus-related, according to the following inclusion criteria: male sex, age < 60 years, body mass index (BMI) [...]

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Introduction Metabolic bone disease is a complication of chronic liver dis­ease (CLD) and is well known as “hepatic osteodistrophy”. Osteoporosis accounts for the majority of cases, whereas osteomalacia is rare in the absence of advanced liver disease and severe malabsorption. The prevalence is the same in men and women, however the published prevalence of os­teoporosis [...]

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This investigation provides new insight into the correlates of BMD among older African Americans. As might be expected, female gender was highly associated with lower BMD. Of importance, however, is the substantial contribution of weight to the explained variability, while age diminishes in importance after adjustment for covariates. The association of weight with BMD or [...]

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The participants ranged in age from 67 to 97, with a mean age of 75.3. Men comprised 37.5% of the sample. The participants were relatively well-educated, reporting an average of 13.1 years of education. The average family had an annual income between $16,000 and $24,999. Based on their reported physical activity, African-American participants in CHS [...]

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As part of the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), DXA scans were preformed on 1,591 older men and women, including 302 African Americans. CHS is a longitudinal, population-based cohort study of men and women over the age of 64 recruited from four geographically distinct sites in the United States. Additionally, other medical, functional and psychosocial data [...]

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