Fast and slow bone losers: Relevance to the management of osteoporosis

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Hough, Stephen ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGE; BLOOD; BONE; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; RADIODENSITOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; URINE;

AGE FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE RESORPTION; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL;

EID: 0031608446     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199812001-00001     Document Type: Article

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