Fracture prevalence and treatment with bone-sparing agents: Are there urban-rural differences? A population based study in Ontario, Canada

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 550-558

  Cadarette, Suzanne M ^a,b   Jaglal, Susan B ^a,b,c   Hawker, Gillian A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d Women's College Ambulatory Care Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drug therapy; Fractures; Osteoporosis; Prevalence; Rural population; Urban population

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ESTROGEN; ETIDRONIC ACID; FLUORIDE; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEX RATIO; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM; CANADA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ESTROGENS; ETIDRONIC ACID; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; OSTEOPOROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN D;

EID: 15044360387     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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