Paget's disease in New Zealand: Evidence for declining prevalence

Bone

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 616-619

  Doyle, T ^a   Gunn, J ^b   Anderson, G ^b   Gill, M ^c   Cundy, Tim ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c Diagnostic Laboratory   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alkaline phosphatase; Epidemiology; New Zealand; Paget's disease of bone

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PAGET BONE DISEASE; PELVIS; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OSTEITIS DEFORMANS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036861114     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8756-3282(02)00876-1     Document Type: Article

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