Non-participants differ from participants as regards risk factors for vertebral deformities: A source of misinterpretation in the European Vertebral Osteoporosis Study

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 451-454

  Hasserius, Ralph ^a   Karlsson, Magnus K ^a   Nilsson, Bo E ^a   Redlund Johnell, Inga ^a   Johnell, Olof ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BONE MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036674127     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016470216326     Document Type: Article

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