Nontraumatic Fracture Risk With Diabetes Mellitus and Impaired Fasting Glucose in Older White and Black Adults
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- 25 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 165 (14) , 1612-1617
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.165.14.1612
Abstract
Osteoporosis in people with diabetes is poorly understood. Recent data from prospective cohorts in the United States, Norway, and Australia indicate that adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) may have a higher risk of fracture compared with nondiabetic adults,1-5 in spite of the higher bone mineral density (BMD) and body weight that is associated with diabetes.2,6-10 Most evidence exists for older white women1-3 compared with older white men1 and black adults. Although type 2 DM is more prevalent among older black than white adults in the United States,11 it is not known whether the effect of DM on fracture risk is similar in this age group. The relationship of impaired fasting glucose (IFG), or prediabetes, to fracture risk in older adults is uncertain because previous studies did not measure fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels1-3,5 or perform separate analyses in nondiabetic adults.4This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: