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Volume 15 | ESPEYB15 | Next issue

Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

9 Oncology and chronic disease

Bone health monitoring in chronic disease: broaden existing knowledge

ey0015.9-14 | Bone health monitoring in chronic disease: broaden existing knowledge | ESPEYB15

9.14 Structural basis of bone fragility in young subjects with inflammatory bowel disease: a high-resolution pQCT study of the SWISS IBD Cohort (SIBDC)

J Pepe , S Zawadynski , FR Herrmann , P Juillerat , P Michetti , S Ferrari-Lacraz , D Belli , O Ratib , R Rizzoli , T Chevalley , SL Ferrari

To read the full abstract: Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2017;23:1410-1417This cross-sectional study analyzed bone health status by high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HRpQTC) of a Swiss Cohort of young patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in comparison to healthy controls, matched for sex, age, height and fracture history. The results showed subtle abnormalities in...