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Mohammed Hadi Al-Osami1, Ekhlas Khalid Hameed2
1Rheumtology and Medical rehabilitation unit, department of Medicine, College of Medicine-University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
Background:
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a major health burden worldwide. Patients with type 2 DM has various complications, including impaired bone health. Adiponectin is novel adipocytokine that could influence bone metabolism.
Objective:
We investigated the relationships between serum adiponectin versus lumbar bone mineral density (BMD) in type 2 diabetic osteoporotic postmenopausal women.
Subjects And Methods:
This study is a case control study included 90 postmenopausal women; divided as (group A) composed of 30 type 2 diabetic osteoporotic postmenapausal,(group B) composed of 30 non diabetic osteoporotic postmenopausal and 30 apparently healthy non osteoporotic postmenopausal women as a control group. All participants underwent Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry to measure the lumbar Bone Mineral Density (BMD).Serum adiponectin was measured by ELISA Kits. SPSS was used to analyze the data.
Results:
Among the studied subjects, group B showed a significant negative correlation between serum adiponectin and lumbar BMD. The diabetic osteoporotic postmenapausal group (group B) showed the lowest concentration of serum adiponectin (μg/mL): 5.14 compared with 11.02 and 8.63 in group A, and the control, respectively. Lumbar BMD of group B was significantly higher than that of group A.
Conclusions:
Serum adiponectin is associated with lumber BMD in diabetic osteoporotic postmenopausal women. These findings suggest that serum adiponectin was involved in bone metabolism in this group.
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