Type of Fall and Risk of Hip and Wrist Fractures: The Study of Osteoporotic Fractures

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 1226-1234

  Nevitt, Michael C ^a,b   Cummings, Steven R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BONE DENSITY; ELDERLY CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WRIST FRACTURE;

EID: 0027515204     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1993.tb07307.x     Document Type: Article

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