[Bone quality in lifestyle-related diseases].

Lifestyle-related diseases deteriorate bone quality in terms of material properties. Collagen cross-link formation is thought to be a determinant of material strength. Hyperglycemia, oxidative stress, carbonyl stress, and hyperhomocysteinemia induce the reduction in beneficial enzymatic cross-links and the accumulation of disadvantageous non-enzymatic cross-link, Advanced glycation end products (AGEs, Pentosidine) in bone. In this review, we describe that lifestyle-related diseases are crucial determinants of detrimental crosslinking of bone collagen that have been reported in the literature.