Clinical subsequent fractures cluster in time after first fractures

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-102

  Van Geel, T A C M ^a   Van Helden, S ^b   Geusens, P P ^b,c   Winkens, B ^a   Dinant, G J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58349088695     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2008.092775     Document Type: Article

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