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Bone Metabolism and the c.-223C > T Polymorphism in the 5'UTR Region of the Osteoprotegerin Gene in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Calcified tissue international - 1 Dec 2016
Krela-Kaźmierczak Iwona, Kaczmarek-Ryś Marta, Szymczak Aleksandra, Michalak Michał, Skrzypczak-Zielińska Marzena, Drwęska-Matelska Natalia, Marcinkowska Michalina, Eder Piotr, Łykowska-Szuber Lilianna, Wysocka Ewa, Linke Krzysztof, Słomski Ryszard
Abstract excerpt
Osteoporosis is more frequent in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. A reduction in bone mineral mass in these individuals is caused not only by inflammatory processes in the bowel, because osteoporosis occurs already in very young IBD patients and in newly diagnosed individuals who have not yet undergone any pharmacological treatment. One of individual determinants of the bone turnover parameters is...
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