Mayo Clinic: Add Bone Deterioration to Diabetes Complications

Sundeep Khosla, M.D., Mayo Clinic endocrinologist, describes a study showing that the skeleton needs to be recognized as another important target of diabetes complications. The list of complications from Type 2 diabetes is long: vascular and heart disease, eye problems, nerve damage, kidney disease, hearing problems and Alzheimer's disease. This study is the first demonstration — using direct measurement of bone strength in the body — of compromised bone material in patients with Type 2 diabetes.