FRAX, falls, and fracture prediction predicting the future

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 1661-1662

  Bauer, Douglas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRENGTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLING; FRACTURE; FRACTURE RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GAIT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; NOTE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BONE DENSITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 80054743854     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.495     Document Type: Note

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