Differential effect of obesity on bone mineral density in White, Hispanic and African American women: a cross sectional study

Osteoporosis is a major public health problem with low bone mass affecting nearly half the women aged 50 years or older. Evidence from various studies has shown that higher body mass index (BMI) is a protective factor for bone mineral density (BMD). Most of the evidence, however, is from studies wit...

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Autores principales: Castro, Jonathan P, Joseph, Linda A, Shin, John J, Arora, Surender K, Nicasio, John, Shatzkes, Joshua, Raklyar, Irina, Erlikh, Irina, Pantone, Vincent, Bahtiyar, Gul, Chandler, Leon, Pabon, Lina, Choudhry, Sara, Ghadiri, Nilofar, Gosukonda, Pramodini, Muniyappa, Rangnath, von-Gicyzki, Hans, McFarlane, Samy I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1090614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15817133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-7075-2-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1090614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15817133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-7075-2-9

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