Fracture risk and height: An association partly accounted for by cortical porosity of relatively thinner cortices

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2017-2026

  Bjørnerem, Åshild ^a,b   Bui, Quang Minh ^c   Ghasem Zadeh, Ali ^c   Hopper, John L ^c   Zebaze, Roger ^c   Seeman, Ego ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CORTICAL POROSITY; CORTICAL THICKNESS; FRACTURE RISK; HEIGHT; HIGH RESOLUTION PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE FRAGILITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POROSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIBIA; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRABECULAR BONE;

CORTICAL POROSITY; CORTICAL THICKNESS; FRACTURE RISK; HEIGHT; HIGH-RESOLUTION PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POROSITY; PROBABILITY; RADIUS; RISK FACTORS; TIBIA;

EID: 84882571113     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: 15234681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.1934     Document Type: Article

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