Osteoporosis in tube-fed bed-ridden elderly female patients: Letters to the editor

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1318-1320

  Jaul, Efraim ^a   Malcov, Tania ^b   Menczel, Jacob ^c,d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Maccabi Health Fund ^*  (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d HERZOG HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LETTER; LUMBAR SPINE; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; TUBE FEEDING;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; BED REST; BONE DENSITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; ISRAEL; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 67649803228     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02334.x     Document Type: Letter

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