Association of red blood cell 5-methyltetrahydrfoate folate with bone mineral density in postmenopausal Iranian women

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1894-1898

  Golbahar, J ^a,b   Aminzadeh, M A ^a   Hamidi, S A ^a   Omrani, G R ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Osteoporosis; Postmenopausal women; Red blood cell 5 methytetrahydrofoalte

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATININE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IRAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; METHYLATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TETRAHYDROFOLATES; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 29044442908     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-005-1961-x     Document Type: Article

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