Fracture mortality: Associations with epidemiology and osteoporosis treatment

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 592-602

  Sattui, Sebastian E ^a   Saag, Kenneth G ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; DENOSUMAB; RISEDRONIC ACID; STRONTIUM RANELATE; ZOLEDRONIC ACID; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT;

AGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEALTH STATUS; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE FRACTURE; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HIP FRACTURES; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; DIPHOSPHONATES; FRACTURES, BONE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84926220903     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2014.125     Document Type: Review

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