Osteoporosis in developing countries

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 693-708

  Handa, Rohini ^a   Ali Kalla, Asgar ^b   Maalouf, Ghassan ^c  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Africa; Asia; developing countries; fracture; fracture risk; Latin America; Middle East; osteoporosis; vitamin D

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; VITAMIN D;

BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM INTAKE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY HISTORY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUN EXPOSURE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

BONE DENSITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 50849083498     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.04.002     Document Type: Review

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