Aging bone score and climatic factors

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 349-359

  Belkin, Victor ^a   Livshits, Gregory ^a   Otremski, Itzhak ^b   Kobyliansky, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bone aging; Climate; Human populations

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BONE AGE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLIMATE; CORTICAL BONE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMIDITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; THICKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CLIMATE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031848605     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199807)106:3<349::AID-AJPA7>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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