Abstract:BackgroundData regarding the prevalence and especially incidence of osteoporosis in Spondylarthritis (SPA) is scarce and very divergent among studies from different patient populations (1).ObjectivesIn this study, we aimed to compare demographic, disease and laboratory characteristics of SpA patients regarding their bone mineral densitometry (BMD) categories and find out incidence of osteoporosis in the follow-up BMD of patients who were not found to have osteoporosis at baseline.MethodsBetween 2010-2021, pati… Show more
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