Body segment lengths and arm span in healthy men and women and patients with vertebral fractures

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-48

  Wang, Xiao Fang ^a   Duan, Yunbo ^a   Henry, Margaret ^a   Kim, Bom Taeck ^a,b   Seeman, Ego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Ajou University Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Body segment length; Sex; Span; Vertebral fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT STATURE; SITTING; STANDING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ARM; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 1342332018     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-003-1496-y     Document Type: Article

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