Sri Lankan FRAX model and country-specific intervention thresholds

Archives of Osteoporosis

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages

  Lekamwasam, Sarath ^a  

^a Center for Metabolic Bone Diseases   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

FRAX; Intervention thresholds; Osteoporosis; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CHINESE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; JAPANESE; PHILIPPINES; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SRI LANKA; TAIWAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84882368593     PISSN: 18623522     EISSN: 18623514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11657-013-0148-x     Document Type: Article

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