Editorial: The skeleton, race, and ethnicity

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 3047-3050

  Looker, Anne C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN AMERICAN; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE TURNOVER; CAUCASIAN; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FRACTURE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; NEGRO; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; NOTE; RACE;

BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS;

EID: 0036633678     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.87.7.3047     Document Type: Editorial

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