Ioannis P. Stathopoulos, Efstathios G. Ballas, Kalliopi Lampropoulou-Adamidou, George Trovas
While osteoporosis has been traditionally considered as a disease of aging women, it is becoming an increasingly important male health problem, with one in three fragility fractures after the age of 50 years occurring in men …
Eva N. Kassi, Spiros Stavropoulos, Panayiotis Kokkoris, Antonis Galanos, Paraskevi Moutsatsou, Cleanthi Dimas, Athanasios Papatheodorou, Christos Zafeiris, George Lyritis
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the prevalence of 25(OH)D (D2 and D3 independently) inadequacy in healthy young/middle-aged men and to investigate its relationship with BMD, bone markers, demographic and lifestyle parameters such as age, BMI, smoking, alcohol consumption and dietary calcium intake …
Amy R. Lane, Anthony C. Hackney
The anabolic hormone testosterone (T) continues to be researched extensively in exercise studies, with blood serum or plasma samples collected routinely. This method is considered both valid and reliable; however, the collection process can be invasive and difficult during exercise …