Standardized incidence and trend of osteoporotic hip fracture in Polish women and men: a nine year observation.

Background: Osteoporosis and its consequence of low trauma fracture represent a major health burden in aging population, because it results in increased morbidity, mortality and high health care costs. The number of hip fractures worldwide will approximately double by the year 2025 and more than triple by 2050. The aim of the study was to assess the incidence and trends of osteoporotic hip fracture in women and men aged over 50 years in polish population.

Fracture status in men assessed by quantitative ultrasound measurements at the calcaneus.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess fracture status in men by quantitative ultrasound measurements at the calcaneus. The diagnostic accuracy of quantitative ultrasound measurements was evaluated at baseline and follow-up.

Methods: We observed 165 men (baseline age ± SD, 59.

Expression pattern of genes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in diabetic nephropathy.

Aims: Only one-third of Type 1 diabetes patients develop diabetic nephropathy, and a genetic predisposition is postulated. To obtain more insight into processes that lead to diabetic nephropathy, messenger RNA expression profiles of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with and without diabetic nephropathy were compared.

Methods: We studied seven male patients with Type 1 diabetes and proteinuria and 12 male patients with Type 1 diabetes and normoalbuminuria after at least 20 years of diabetes duration.