What is osteopenia, and what should be done about it?

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-32

  Watts, Nelson B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HIP; HUMAN; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE; CLASSIFICATION; FRACTURE; METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMENCLATURE; RADIODENSITOMETRY;

AGED; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33644870577     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.73.1.29     Document Type: Article

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