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Does diabetes increase the risk for fractures after solid organ transplantation? A nested case-control study.

Agnès A Rakel, Odile O Sheehy, Elham E Rahme, and Jacques J Lelorier

J Bone Miner Res 22(12):1878-84 (2007) PMID 17680725

To assess the risk of fractures after a solid organ transplantation among diabetic versus nondiabetic patients, we conducted a nested case-control study. Pretransplant diabetes was associated with a 2-fold increase in post-transplant fractures.

DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.070723
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