Prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia among African Americans with early rheumatoid arthritis: The impact of ethnic-specific normative data

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1155-1160

  Mikuls, Ted R ^a   Saag, Kenneth G ^b   Curtis, Jeffrey ^b   Bridges Jr , S Louis ^b   Alarcon, Graciela S ^b   Westfall, Andrew O ^c   Lim, Sam S ^d   Smith, Edwin A ^e   Jonas, Beth L ^f   Moreland, Larry W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; DXA; Osteopenia; Osteoporosis; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HIP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23244465537     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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