Association of Respiratory Tuberculosis with Incident Bone Fracture: Bridging the Tuberculosis Airway Infection and the Osteoporotic Bone

OBJECTIVE: The relationship between respiratory tuberculosis (RT) and incident fragility fracture and osteoporosis/fragility fracture in the general population is not well determined; therefore, we conducted a nationwide cohort study to investigate this relationship. METHODS: We used the National He...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Yeh, Jun-Jun, Wang, Yu-Chiao, Lin, Che-Chen, Lin, Cheng-Li, Hsu, Wu-Huei
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178997/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28005963
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168673
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