Cortical Porosity Identifies Women with Osteopenia at Increased Risk for Forearm Fractures

BACKGROUND: Most fragility fractures arise among the many women with osteopenia, not the smaller number with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture. Thus, most women at risk for fracture assessed only by measuring areal bone mineral density (aBMD) will remain untreated. METHODS: We measured cortical...

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Main Authors: Bala, Yohann, Zebaze, Roger, Ghasem-Zadeh, Ali, Atkinson, Elizabeth J., Iuliano, Sandra, Peterson, James M., Amin, Shreyasee, Bjørnerem, Åshild, Melton, L. Joseph, Johansson, Helena, Kanis, John A., Khosla, Sundeep, Seeman, Ego
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4156822/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24519558
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbmr.2167
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