Journal:
:hepatitis monthly
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joanna raszeja-wyszomirska hepatology and internal medicine unit, department of general transplant and liver surgery, medical university of warsaw, warsaw, poland
robert kucharski liver research laboratories, pomeranian medical university, szczecin, poland
marta zygmunt hepatology and internal medicine unit, department of general transplant and liver surgery, medical university of warsaw, warsaw, poland
krzysztof safranow department of biochemistry and chemistry, pomeranian medical university, szczecin, poland
tomasz miazgowski department of hypertension and internal medicine, pomeranian medical university, szczecin, poland; corresponding author: tomasz miazgowski, department of hypertension and internal medicine, pomeranian medical university, szczecin, poland. tel: +48-91425 3550, fax: +48-914253552, e-mail:
conclusions in middle-aged subjects with psc, we found a high rate of non-vertebral fractures and a moderately decreased bmd in lumbar spine and hip. fragility fractures had an impact on physical and mental aspects of hrqol. results in 32% of patients, bmd measured in the hip or spine was below 1.0 standard deviation. a history of fragility fractures (distal forearm and ribs) was reported in si...