Characteristics of elderly patients admitted to an urban tertiary care hospital with osteoporotic fractures: Correlations with risk factors, fracture type, gender and ethnicity

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 410-416

  Becker, Carolyn ^a   Crow, Scott ^a   Toman, Jared ^a   Lipton, Carter ^a   McMahon, Don J ^a   Macaulay, William ^a   Siris, Ethel ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antiresorptive therapy; Fracture intervention program; Gender differences; Hip fractures; Osteoporosis; Preventive care; Racial ethnic differences; Vitamin D deficiency

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARM FRACTURE; BONE DENSITY; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIP; HIP FRACTURE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OSTEOPOROSIS; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, SECONDARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 33645215949     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-005-0001-1     Document Type: Review

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