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Serum insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) decreases with increasing age and this process is more pronounced in women after the menopause in parallel with the increasing prevalence of osteoporosis. This study was designed to compare IGF-1 concentrations, vitamin D, intact parathyroid hormone (PTH) and lifestyle factors in postmenopausal, osteoporotic women with and without oestrogen replacement therapy (HRT), with an age-matched random population sample of women.
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Research Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden. kerstin.landin@sahlgrenska.se
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