Relationship between vertebral fracture prevalence and abdominal aortic calcification in men

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1714-1720

  El maghraoui, Abdellah ^a   Rezqi, Asmaa ^a   Mounach, Aziza ^a   Achemlal, Lahsen ^a   Bezza, Ahmed ^a   Ghozlani, Imad ^a  

^a MILITARY HOSPITAL MOHAMMED V   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic calcification; Dual energy X ray absorptiometry; Men; Osteoporosis; Vertebral fracture assessment; Vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA CALCIFICATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BONE DENSITOMETRY; BONE DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMUR; HIP; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION STUDY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BONE DENSITY; CALCINOSIS; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; PREVALENCE; SHOULDER FRACTURES; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 84865338772     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kes126     Document Type: Article

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