Osteoporosis and Fracture Risk in Diabetes: Updated Clinical, Hormonal and Molecular Insights
A special issue of Diabetology (ISSN 2673-4540).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 1297
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Endocrinology, C.I. Parhon National Institute of Endocrinology, 011863 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: thyroid; adrenal; pituitary; osteoporosis; neuroendocrine tumors; bone; fracture; gynecological endocrinology; diabetes
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to one or multiple articles, either an original study, an updated review (systematic or narrative) or other types of analyses, regarding the complex landscape of bone and related muscle involvement in diabetes mellitus type 1 or 2 or secondary diabetes, as found in various endocrine and non-endocrine conditions such as functioning adrenal tumors, neoplasia-related excess of pituitary hormones, pancreatic anomalies, parathyroid tumors, and corticotherapy.
We are particularly interested (but not exclusively) in the following domains/cross-domains or trans-disciplinary approaches:
- Traditional and new tools to estimate the fracture risk in various diabetic subpopulations;
- Anti-fracture intervention from standard drug regime to novel agents (antiresorptive or osteoanabolic) in individuals confirmed with diabetes;
- The fracture risk which is correlated with using new classes of medication against diabetes and obesity (current level of statistical evidence, controversies, pitfalls);
- Biomarkers of bone and muscle involvement in various diabetic subgroups (myokines, adipokines, inflammatory markers, bone resorption markers, bone formation markers, etc.);
- Rehabilitation, fracture healing and non-pharmacologic intervention for primary and secondary fracture prevention in diabetic subjects;
- New pathogenic loops in the bone-muscle-fat-gut cross-talk.
Dr. Mara Carsote
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diabetes mellitus
- endocrine
- hormone, bone
- fracture
- fracture risk assessment
- skeleton
- fracture healing
- anti-osteoporotic drugs
- osteoanabolic agents
- FRAX
- FRAXplus
- bone turnover markers
- mineral metabolism
- DXA
- osteoporosis
- osteopenia
- secondary diabetes
- osteocalcin
- muscle
- irisin
- collagen
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