Introduction:

osteoporosis is a global health problem, its importance increases with population aging. Decreased bone mineral density is directly related to advanced age and the presence of clinical risk factors such as diabetes mellitus and postmenopause.

Objective:

to describe bone mineral density and its association with age and clinical characteristics of diabetes mellitus 2 in postmenopausal women.

Methods:

a descriptive, cross-sectional research was conducted in 119 postmenopausal women, with and without diabetes mellitus, who were seen at the Endocrinology Consultation of the “Arnaldo Milián Castro” Hospital, in the period from January 2018 to September 2019, and selected by non-probabilistic purposive sampling.

Results:

among women with diabetes osteoporosis was more frequent in the lumbar spine (66.1%), followed by osteopenia (21%) and normal bone mineral density (13%). At the hip level 39% had osteopenia, 35.5% osteoporosis and 29% normal bone mineral density. There was a significant statistical association of decreased bone mineral density in the lumbar spine with poor metabolic control (p=0.05), diabetes mellitus complications (p=0.030) and metformin treatment (p=0.027).

Conclusions:

in the postmenopausal women with diabetes studied, compared to women without diabetes, bone mineral density decreased with increasing age. At the lumbar spine level, the presence of osteopenia and osteoporosis was associated with poor metabolic control, treatment with metformin and the presence of chronic complications of diabetes.

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