Diminished Rates of Bone Formation in Normal Black Adults

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 319, Issue 26, 1988, Pages 1698-1701

  Weinstein, Robert S ^a   Bell, Norman H ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MASS; BONE TURNOVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0024262537     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198812293192603     Document Type: Article

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