The relationship between incidence of fractures and anemia in older multiethnic women

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2337-2344

  Chen, Zhao ^a   Thomson, Cynthia A ^a   Aickin, Mikel ^b   Nicholas, J Skye ^a   Van Wyck, David ^b   Lewis, Cora E ^c   Cauley, Jane A ^d   Bassford, Tamsen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

anemia; fracture risk; hemoglobin; prospective studies

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIUM INTAKE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIP FRACTURE; HISPANIC; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRON INTAKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEOPLASM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SPINE FRACTURE; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 78650106526     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03183.x     Document Type: Article

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