Young people with inflammatory bowel diseases are at increased risk of fracture

Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 15:30 in Health & Medicine

A team of scientists from the University Hospitals of Geneva and Lausanne have shown that young people with inflammatory bowel diseases have low bone mass and poor bone architecture compared to healthy people of the same age, placing them at increased risk of fracture.

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