Frequency of Osteoporosis among Diabetic Elderly; Cross-sectional study in Mansoura University Hospital. | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology | ||
| Volume 1, Issue 2, October 2014, Pages 24-30 PDF (201.94 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejgg.2014.381591 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ismail Kandil* 1; Ahmed Kamel Mortagy2 | ||
| 1Internal medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine - Mansoura University, | ||
| 2Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: There is a controversy about the effect of diabetes mellitus on bone mineral density. Objectives: To assess the frequency of osteoporosis in diabetic elderly patients attending to diabetes outpatient clinic in the specialized medical hospital at Mansoura University Hospital. Methods: Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) was used to assess the bone mineral density of the left femur of 166 elderly patients who participated after performing the complete clinical evaluation. Results: 31% of participants were osteopenic and 11% were osteoporotic, as regard men 20.8% and 1.4 % were osteopenic and osteoporotic respectively while 40.4% and 19.1% of women were osteopenic and osteoporotic respectively. 13.3%, 5.9%, and 9.9% of women, men, and total participants experienced a history of falls. Conclusion: The frequency of osteoporosis among the study participants was 11% in total participants, there was no significant correlation between type of diabetes treatment and osteoporosis. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| osteoporosis; diabetic elderly; DEXA scans | ||
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