Burden of major musculoskeletal conditions

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 646-656

  Woolf, Anthony D ^a   Pfleger, Bruce ^b  

^a ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arthritis Rheumatoid epidemiology complications; Fractures epidemiology; Low back pain epidemiology complications; Musculoskeletal diseases epidemiology complications; Osteoarthritis epidemiology complications; Osteoporosis epidemiology complications

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH STATUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOREARM FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0141920503     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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