Mortality and osteoporotic fractures: Is the link causal, and is it modifiable?

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 5 SUPPL. 51, 2008, Pages

  Teng, Gim Gee ^a   Curtis, Jeffrey R ^b   Saag, Kenneth G ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hip fractures; Mortality; Osteoporosis; Vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG RESPONSE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 55349105828     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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