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Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
An osteoporosis caused by chronic glucocorticoid use. Glucocorticoids impair the replication, differentiation and function of osteoblasts and induce the apoptosis of mature osteoblasts and osteocytes; the also favor osteoclastogenesis leading to an increase in bone resorption.
This condition has no sub-types.