The impact of clothing style on bone mineral density among post menopausal women in Morocco: A case-control study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Allali, Fadoua ^a,b   El Aichaoui, Siham ^a   Saoud, Bouchra ^a   Maaroufi, Houda ^a   Abouqal, Redouane ^b   Hajjaj Hassouni, Najia ^a  

^a El Ayachi University Hospital   (Morocco)

^b MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEAD; HUMAN; LEG; MENOPAUSE; MOROCCO; MULTIPARA; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK; SMOKING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FRACTURES, BONE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BONE DENSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOTHING; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; RISK FACTORS; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 33746562296     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-135     Document Type: Article

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