Former male elite athletes have lower incidence of fragility fractures than expected

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 405-410

  Tveit, Magnus ^a   Rosengren, Björn E ^a   Nyquist, Fredrik ^a   Nilsson, Jan Åke ^a   Karlsson, Magnus K ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Former athletes; fractures; osteoporosis; physical activity; sport

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OCCUPATION; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SPORT; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OCCUPATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SPORTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875209942     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318274fdf3     Document Type: Article

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