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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2017 Jun;15(3):207–213. doi: 10.1007/s11914-017-0366-z

Table 1.

Bone changes associated with hormonal and metabolic disturbances of renal osteodystrophy

Decreased bone density and microarchitecture

  • Cortical porosity

  • Cortical thinning and trabecularization

  • Trabecular thinning and dropout

Decreased bone quality

  • Mineralization (osteomalacia)

  • Abnormal remodeling

    adynamic bone disease

    low turnover

    high turnover

  • Microdamage accumulation

  • AGE crosslinking