Is the Swedish FRAX model appropriate for Swedish immigrants?

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2617-2622

  Johansson, H ^a,b   Oden A ^a   Lorentzon, M ^b   McCloskey, E ^a   Kanis, J A ^a   Harvey, N C ^c   Karlsson, M K ^d   Mellstrom D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; FRAX; Hip fracture; Immigrants; Osteoporosis; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL; GROUPS BY AGE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SWEDEN; SWEDISH CITIZEN; USSR; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; MIGRATION; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 84944357368     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-015-3180-4     Document Type: Article

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