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Alcohol Clin Exp Res
December 2005
Orthopaedic Research Laboratory and Alcohol Research Center, Omaha Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Creighton University Biomedical Engineering Research Center and Department of Surgery, Omaha, Nebraska 68105, USA.
Background: Chronic consumption of excessive alcohol eventually results in an osteopenic skeleton and increased risk for osteoporosis. Alcoholics experience not only increased incidence of fractures from falls, but also delays in fracture healing compared with non-alcoholics. In this review the term "alcohol-induced bone disease" is used to refer to these skeletal abnormalities.
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