Bone mineral density among postmenopausal Saudi women

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1623-1625

  Sadat Ali, Mir ^a,b   Al Habdan, Ibrahim M ^a   Al Mulhim, Fatma A ^a   El Hassan, Abdallah Y ^a  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOPENIA; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAUDI ARABIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE FRACTURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGED; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 10644248372     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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