title: [Measuring skin thickness in perimenopausal women. Correlation with bone density and hormone parameters].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the connection between alterations in skin-thickness and bone density in menopause.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 231 perimenopausal women the skin thickness was measured with ultrasound and correlated with the results of bone densitometry and the hormonal parameters.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The correlation between skin thickness and bone densitometry showed a statistical significance of p < 0.0001. Thus we could demonstrate that not only the bone but also the skin is a hormone-dependent organ which responds enormously to a decrease of C19 and C18 steroids.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ultrasound skin measurement is a very simple method which can be used for a more differentiated diagnosis and therapy in menopausal women.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Frauenheilkunde Wien.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gruber
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sator
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Frigo
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Knogler
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Huber
mesh_terms: D015519:Bone Density / Q000502:physiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000097:blood / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012016:Reference Values; D012867:Skin / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones