Hip fracture in elderly men: The importance of subclinical vitamin D deficiency and hypogonadism

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 138-141

  Diamond, Terrence ^a,b   Smerdely, Peter ^a,b   Kormas, Nic ^a,b   Sekel, Ronald ^a,b   Vu, Tung ^a,b   Day, Peter ^a,c  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Department of Endocrinology ^*

^c S Eastern Area Laboratory Service

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM ION; CREATININE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; UREA;

AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE ATROPHY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SMOKING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0032479746     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb116014.x     Document Type: Article

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