Just one look, and fractures and death can be predicted in elderly ambulatory women

Gerontology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 309-314

  Gerdhem, Paul ^a   Ringsberg, Karin ^a   Åkesson, Kristina ^a   Obrant, Karl J ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Death prediction; Elderly ambulatory women, fractures death; Fracture prediction

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GERIATRIC CARE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4444325594     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079129     Document Type: Article

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