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[Features of bone metabolism in patients with chronic diseases of digestive system]
Abstract:
Paper is devoted to the study of the clinical features of the course diseases of gastrointestinal tract and liver in the formation of osteopenia and osteoporosis. Given frequencies of occurrence of infringements of mineral density of bone at patients with chronic pancreatitis, cirrhosis, cholelithiasis, inflammatory bowel disease as well as diseases that are accompanied by malabsorption syndromes (celiac enteropathy syndrome of short small intestine). Established populational (age, sex, lower body mass index, menopause), clinical and laboratory factors indicating high risk of lower bone mineral density in these patients.
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