title: [Determination of changes in the mineral content of the bones of diabetics by photon absorption measurements].
abstract: The absolute value of mineral content of the bones (MCB), obtained from a single measurement and compared with the so called mean or normal value for a certain age-sex population, cannot be a reliable diagnostic index owing to the great individual discrepancies of MCB, reaching even to +/- 40%. Only the successive, dynamic and compared within each other values of MCB could be of use for the purposes of medical diagnostics and therapy. As a result for periodic measurements in patients with diabetes, the juvenile diabetes was concluded to be characterized by a higher initial MCB value and a faster demineralization, contrary to diabetes that advanced at an older age.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000032:analysis*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008903:Minerals / Q000032:analysis*; D011884:Radius / Q000032:analysis; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic; D014457:Ulna / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D008903:Minerals
vernacular_title: Opredeliane promenite na mineralnoto sudurzhanie v kostite pri bolni ot diabet chrez fotonno-absorbtsionni izmervaniia.