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Inverse association of serum osteocalcin and bone mineral density in renal transplant recipients.
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- Adynamic bone disorder in chronic kidney disease: meta-analysis and narrative review of potential biomarkers as diagnosis and therapeutic targets.Renal failure · 2025Pooled it
- Associations of bone health biomarkers and bone mineral density with dietary intakes in vitamin D deficient women: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A diagnostic approach integrated multimodal radiomics with machine learning models based on lumbar spine CT and X-ray for osteoporosis.Journal of bone and mineral metabolism · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objectives: Osteocalcin, a protein from osteoblasts, affects bone mineralization and turnover. This study evaluates the association between fasting serum osteocalcin and bone mineral density (BMD) in renal transplant recipients. Materials and Methods: This study recruited 66 renal transplant recipients. We analyzed blood biochemistry studies from fasting blood samples. The serum osteocalcin levels were measured using a commercial enzyme immunoassay kit. We measure BMD by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in lumbar vertebrae (L2-L4). By the World Health Organization classification, we group recipients into three groups: normal, osteopenia, and osteoporosis. Results: Of the renal transplant recipients, 8 patients (12.1%) were osteoporosis, and 28 patients (42.4%) were osteopenia. From normal to osteoporosis groups, the osteoporosis group has highest serum osteocalcin ( Conclusion: Our study showed that fasting serum osteocalcin concentration was negatively correlated with the lumbar BMD in renal transplant recipients.
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