Comments on the hypotheses underlying fracture risk assessment in osteoporosis as proposed by the World Health Organization

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 267-270

  Sandor, T ^a   Felsenberg, D ^b   Brown, E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone densitometry; Bones; Fracture risk; Osteoporosis; Quantitative computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0032973112     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002239900616     Document Type: Article

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