Association of race and other potential risk factors with nonvertebral fractures in community-dwelling elderly women

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 149, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1002-1009

  Bohannon, Arline D ^a,b   Hanlon, Joseph T ^c   Landerman, Richard ^a,d   Gold, Deborah T ^a,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Bone and bones; Drug therapy; Fractures; Fractures, open; Osteoporosis; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DIURETIC AGENT; ESTROGEN; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; THYROMIMETIC AGENT;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ELDERLY POPULATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RACIAL DISPARITY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARM FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BONE METABOLISM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WRIST FRACTURE;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033152061     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009744     Document Type: Article

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