Can we identify women at high risk of osteoporotic fractures?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1161-1162

  Lyles, Kenneth W ^a   Colón Emeric, Cathleen S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; DENSITOMETRY; EDITORIAL; FRACTURE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING;

ADULT; AGED; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036088405     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50278.x     Document Type: Editorial

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