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Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 51-56 , January 2008

Postmenopausal Canarian women receiving oral glucocorticoids have an increased prevalence of vertebral fractures and low values of bone mineral density measured by quantitative computer tomography and dual X-ray absorptiometry, without significant changes in parathyroid hormone

M. Sosa
- University Hospital Insular, Department of Internal Medicine, Bone Metabolic Unit, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Investigation Group on Osteoporosis, Canary Islands, Spain
- Corresponding author. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Investigation Group on Osteoporosis, Faculty of Medicine, Apartado 550, 35080, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Tel.: +34 928451456; fax: +34 928451428.
E. Jódar
- University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Endocrinology Division, Metabolic Bone Diseases Unit, Madrid, Spain
P. Saavedra
- University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
M.C. Navarro
- University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
M.J. Gómez de Tejada
- University of Seville, Department of Medicine, Seville, Spain
A. Martín
- University Hospital Insular, Department of Internal Medicine, Bone Metabolic Unit, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Investigation Group on Osteoporosis, Canary Islands, Spain
P. Peña
- University Hospital Insular, Department of Internal Medicine, Bone Metabolic Unit, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Investigation Group on Osteoporosis, Canary Islands, Spain
J. Gómez
- University Hospital Insular, Department of Internal Medicine, Bone Metabolic Unit, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Investigation Group on Osteoporosis, Canary Islands, Spain