Opioids contribute to fracture risk: A meta-analysis of 8 cohort studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Teng, Zhaowei ^a   Zhu, Yun ^a   Wu, Feihu ^a   Zhu, Yanhong ^a   Zhang, Xiguang ^a   Zhang, Chuanlin ^a   Wang, Shuangneng ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b  

^a KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Second People's Hospital of Yunnan Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; META ANALYSIS; RISK;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; COHORT STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; RISK;

EID: 84935032868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128232     Document Type: Article

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