Value of clinical factors in selecting postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis for bone densitometry

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 799-801

  Nolla, J M ^a   Fiter, J ^a   Gomez Vaquero C ^a   Alegre, J J ^a   Valverde, J ^a   Roig Escofet, D ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; DENSITOMETRY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034941336     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.60.8.799     Document Type: Article

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