Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 19-24 , January 2011

Bone mass and sex steroids in postmenarcheal adolescents and adult women with Type 1 diabetes mellitus

  • Néstor Soto

      Affiliations

    • Endocrinology Unit, San Borja-Arriarán Hospital Santiago, Chile
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  • Roxana Pruzzo

      Affiliations

    • Nuclear Medicine Unit, Clínica Alemana Santiago, Chile
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  • Francisca Eyzaguirre

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, University of Chile
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  • Germán Iñiguez

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, University of Chile
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  • Patricia López

      Affiliations

    • Endocrinology Unit, San Borja-Arriarán Hospital Santiago, Chile
    • Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, University of Chile
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  • Jacqueline Mohr

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, University of Chile
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  • Francisco Pérez-Bravo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Chile
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  • Fernando Cassorla

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, University of Chile
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  • Ethel Codner

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, University of Chile
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute of Maternal and Child Research (I.D.I.M.I.), School of Medicine, University of Chile, Casilla 226-3, Santiago, Chile. Tel.: +56 562 977 0865; fax: +56 562 424 7240.

Received 10 March 2009 ,Revised 8 October 2009 ,Accepted 24 October 2009.

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☆ This study was supported by FONDECYT grant 1050452 to E.C.

PII: S1056-8727(09)00117-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2009.10.002

Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 19-24 , January 2011

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