RELATIONSHIP OF DIABETES MELLITUS AND BODY WEIGHT TO OSTEOPOROSIS IN ELDERLY FEMALES

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  • 1 January 1967
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 96  (3) , 132-+
Abstract
Measurements of cortical bone thickness of the radius at a standard site in 63 female patients with diabetes mellitus, 99 non-diabetic control subjects without and 34 with vertebral compressions in the age range from 65 to 101 yrs. revealed that: in both the diabetic and control groups there was a significant loss of cortical bone thickness relative to years postmenopausal, independent of body weight; cortical bone in the diabetics was significantly thicker than that in the controls, independent of years post-menopausal and body weight; in the non-diabetic controls there was a significant positive correlation between the cortical bone thickness and body weight; no such correlation was found in the diabetic group; it appeared that involutional osteoporosis will be less prevalent among old women suffering from diabetes than in comparable non-diabetic subjects, and more prevalent among non-diabetics with low body weight than in obese old women or those of normal weight.