Are osteoporotic fractures due to osteoporosis? Impacts of a frailty pandemic in an aging world

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 191-204

  Elffors, L ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Landstingskontoret Hus H Plan 2   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Frailty; Hip fracture; Osteoporosis; Prevention; Risk factors; Vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

AGING; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; AGING; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS;

EID: 0031664474     PISSN: 03949532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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