Cortical porosity identifies women with osteopenia at increased risk for forearm fractures

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1356-1362

  Bala, Yohann ^a   Zebaze, Roger ^a   Ghasem Zadeh, Ali ^a   Atkinson, Elizabeth J ^b   Iuliano, Sandra ^a   Peterson, James M ^b   Amin, Shreyasee ^b   Bjørnerem, Åshild ^c   Melton III, L Joseph ^b   Johansson, Helena ^d   Kanis, John A ^e   Khosla, Sundeep ^b   Seeman, Ego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d Gothenburg ^*  (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BONE MINERAL DENSITY; CORTICAL POROSITY; FOREARM FRACTURES; MICROARCHITECTURE; TRABECULAR BONE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FOREARM; FOREARM FRACTURE; FRACTURE RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; POROSITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRABECULAR BONE; UNITED STATES; COMPLICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIUS FRACTURE; RISK;

BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POROSITY; RADIUS FRACTURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84901271827     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: 15234681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.2167     Document Type: Article

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