Diabetes tied to increased risk of hidden spinal fractures

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(Reuters Health) - People with type 2 diabetes are more likely than others to develop spinal fractures that sometimes have no obvious symptoms but ...

- People with type 2 diabetes are more likely than others to develop spinal fractures that sometimes have no obvious symptoms but are tied to increased risk of future broken bones, a research review suggests.

"Currently, there are no specific guidelines for the assessment of fracture risk or treatment of osteoporosis in individuals with type 2 diabetes," Fjorda Koromani of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues write in Diabetes Care. People with diabetes in the study who didn't have vertebral fractures still had a 94per cent higher risk of broken bones compared to those without diabetes. And people with vertebral fractures without diabetes had a 73per cent higher risk of broken bones.

One limitation of the results is that the smaller studies included in the analysis didn't examine in detail how the risk of broken bones or premature death varied based on body mass.

 

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