Prevalence and characteristics of bone disease in cirrhotic patients.

Background And Aim: Chronic liver disease is a risk factor for osteoporosis, osteopenia and bone fractures. In this study, prevalence and risk factors of osteoporosis and vitamin D deficiency and also their effects on survival were investigated in 218 patients with chronic liver disease.

Materials And Methods: Prevalence of osteoporosis and vitamin D levels was calculated.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of persons with spinal cord injury in Turkey: One-year experience of a primary referral rehabilitation center.

Objective: To define the demographic and clinical characteristics of persons with spinal cord injury, rehabilitated in a primary referral rehabilitation center in Turkey.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Ankara Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.