Bone Abstracts

Purpose: Osteoporosis (OP) aggravates with vasculature degeneration and improvement of vasculature could prevent OP. We, thus, hypothesize that vascular structure and function play an important role in the development of OP. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients are vulnerable to vasculopathy, so T2DM were involved in this project to study the correlation between vasculopathy and bone mineral density (BMD).Methods: A total of 427 (180 in OP group; 247...

Context: As bone metabolic markers, recent studies indicated vitamin D and osteocalcin (OC) were also involved in energy metabolism. While the exact relationship between vitamin D and OC in regulating energy metabolism is unclear. One of the possibilities is that: low vitamin D could lead to secondary hyperparathyroidism and following high bone turnover, which would enhance the quantity of bioactive OC.Objective: Our aim was to study whether OC mediated ...