Geographic and ethnic disparities in osteoporotic fractures

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 338-351

  Cauley, Jane A ^a   Chalhoub, Didier ^a   Kassem, Ahmed M ^a   Fuleihan, Ghada El Hajj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; FOREARM FRACTURE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPINE FRACTURE;

COHORT EFFECT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOREARM; FRACTURES, BONE; GEOGRAPHY; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 84901356415     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2014.51     Document Type: Review

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