Observational studyOsteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA2021
Calcification of lower extremity arteries is related to the presence of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional observational study.
Observational study in Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- The diabetic neuropathy and bone mineral density in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional and meta-analytic study.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence of osteoporosis in patients with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.BMC endocrine disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Sex-specific associations between carotid plaque and bone mineral density in patients with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cross-sectional study.Biology of sex differences · 2026Article
- The association between remnant cholesterol and bone mineral density in US adults: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2013-2018.Lipids in health and disease · 2024Article
- Research progress of coumarins and their derivatives in the treatment of diabetes.Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2022Review
- Sexual dimorphism in the relation between sex hormones and osteoporosis in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Journal of bone and mineral metabolism · 2022Article
- Bone homeostasis disorders increased the mortality of sepsis patients: A preliminary retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Monckeberg's Medial Sclerosis as a Cause for Headache and Facial Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2021Review
- Understanding the Stony Bridge between Osteoporosis and Vascular Calcification: Impact of the FGF23/Klotho axis.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2021Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
It is unknown whether there is any relationship between extremity arterial macroangiopathy and osteoporosis in type 2 diabetic mellitus (T2DM) patients. We provide evidence to show the association between lower extremity arterial calcification and the presence of osteoporosis in postmenopausal T2DM women, but not in T2DM men of similar age. PURPOSE: To investigate the relationship between lower extremity arterial calcification and the presence of osteoporosis in type 2 diabetic mellitus (T2DM) patients.
methodsWe performed a retrospective cross-sectional study in patients with T2DM. They were assigned into two groups (patients with or without vascular calcification) in both sexes. Clinical characteristics, presence of osteoporosis, and bone metabolic markers were compared. Arterial calcification was determined by ultrasonography examination. Osteoporosis was defined based on the measurements from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. The relationship between the lower extremity arterial calcification and the presence of osteoporosis was analyzed. Statistical analysis was performed in SPSS 26.0.
resultsA total of 933 T2DM patients (535 men ≥ 50 years old, and 398 postmenopausal women) were identified and analyzed. A significant association between arterial calcification and osteoporosis was only observed in women, with a higher prevalence of osteoporosis observed in women with calcification (40.8%) than in women without calcification (26.9%) (P = 0.004). Compared to women without calcification, women with calcification had lower bone mineral densities in the hip (P < 0.001) and femoral neck (P < 0.001). Ordinal logistic regression analysis showed that women with calcification had a nearly 2-fold increased risk for osteoporosis, even after adjusting for age, duration of T2DM, body mass index, pulse pressure, clearance of creatinine, glycosylated hemoglobin, and fasting C-peptide. Similar differences were not identified between men with and without calcification.
conclusionCalcification of lower extremity arteries is related with the presence of osteoporosis in postmenopausal T2DM women.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.