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Inflammatory bowel disease and predisposition to osteopenia

Cowan, F. J., Warner, J. T., Dunstan, F. D. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1043-5281, Evans, W. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0013-8205, Gregory, J. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5189-3812 and Jenkins, H. R. 1997. Inflammatory bowel disease and predisposition to osteopenia. Archives of Disease in Childhood 76 (4) , pp. 325-329. 10.1136/adc.76.4.325

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Abstract

The prevalence of osteopenia in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is unknown. The effect of nutritional state, disease activity, and steroid therapy on bone mineral content (BMC) of whole body, lumbar spine, and left femoral neck measured by dual energy x ray absorptiometry in 32 children with IBD was assessed by comparison with 58 healthy local school children. Using the control data, a predicted BMC was calculated taking into account bone area, age, height, weight, and pubertal stage. The measured BMC in children with IBD was expressed as a percentage of this predicted value (% BMC). Mean (SD) % BMC was significantly reduced for the whole body and left femoral neck in the children with IBD (97.0 (4.5)% and 93.1 (12.0)% respectively, p < 0.05). Of the children with IBD, 41% had a % BMC less than 1 SD below the mean for the whole body and 47% at the femoral neck. Reduction in % BMC was associated with steroid usage but not with the magnitude of steroid dose, disease activity, or biochemical markers of bone metabolism. In conclusion, osteopenia is relatively common in childhood IBD and may be partly related to the previous use of steroids.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
ISSN: 0003-9888
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2022 08:56
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/63865

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