Low intervertebral disc height in postmenopausal women with osteoporotic vertebral fractures compared to hormone-treated and untreated postmenopausal women and premenopausal women without fractures

Climacteric

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 314-319

  Baron, Y Muscat ^a   Brincat, M P ^a   Galea, R ^a   Calleja, N ^a  

^a St Luke's Hospital Medical School   (Malta)

Author keywords

Intervertebral disc height; Osteoporotic vertebral fractures; Postmenopause

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; NORGESTREL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MORPHOMETRICS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRA;

AGED; BODY WEIGHT; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 34547180996     PISSN: 13697137     EISSN: 14730804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13697130701460640     Document Type: Article

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