Obesity and fractures in postmenopausal women: A primary-care cross-sectional study at Santa Maria, Brazil

Journal of Clinical Densitometry

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 165-171

  Copês, Rafaela Martinez ^a   Comim, Fabio Vasconcellos ^a   Langer, Felipe Welter ^a   Codevilla, Antonio Aurelio da Silveira ^a   Sartori, Giovani Ruviaro ^a   de Oliveira, Cristina ^a   Cocco, Aline Rubin ^a   de Almeida, Adriana Maria ^a   de Almeida, Luciana Leiria ^a   Dal Osto, Léo Canterle ^a   Compston, Juliet Elizabeth ^b   Premaor, Melissa Orlandin ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^b Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone fractures; Obesity; Osteoporosis; Postmenopause

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAZIL; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; LEG FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; OBESITY; PELVIS FRACTURE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIB FRACTURE; SELF REPORT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WRIST FRACTURE; BONE DENSITY; FALLING; FRACTURES, BONE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BONE DENSITY; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; THINNESS;

EID: 84928774573     PISSN: 10946950     EISSN: 15590747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocd.2014.09.005     Document Type: Article

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