Abstract
The 3rd International Meeting on Bone Marrow Adiposity (BMA) was held at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, on August 31st and September 1st, 2017. This brief monograph summarizes the scientific contents of the meeting and highlights the birth of the International Bone Marrow Adiposity Society (BMAS).
Highlights
A two-day meeting on Bone Marrow Adiposity (BMA) was held at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, on August 31st and September 1st, 2017
Based on this broad and impactful relevance, documented by the growing number of scientific articles published on this topic in recent years (Figure 1), the need to potentiate basic, translational, and clinical research on BMA was reflected at the constitutive assembly of the BMA meeting in Lausanne, where attendees voted to approve the creation of the International BMA Society (BMAS; http://bma-society.org/) as detailed below
BMA has been recognized as an active tissue involved in diverse biological processes, clinical conditions, and in aging
Summary
A two-day meeting on Bone Marrow Adiposity (BMA) was held at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, on August 31st and September 1st, 2017 (https://bma2017.sciencesconf. org). The increasing focus of sessions and symposia on BMA together with the invitation of BMA experts to congresses organized by international societies across different fields (endocrinology, hematology, bone, imaging) underlines the important implications of BMA in metabolic homeostasis, pathologic conditions (osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, anorexia nervosa, blood diseases, cancer), and aging Based on this broad and impactful relevance, documented by the growing number of scientific articles published on this topic in recent years (Figure 1), the need to potentiate basic, translational, and clinical research on BMA was reflected at the constitutive assembly of the BMA meeting in Lausanne, where attendees voted to approve the creation of the International BMA Society (BMAS; http://bma-society.org/) as detailed below
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