Hip and fragility fracture prediction by 4-item clinical risk score and mobile heel BMD: a women cohort study

BACKGROUND: One in four Swedish women suffers a hip fracture yielding high morbidity and mortality. We wanted to revalidate a 4-item clinical risk score and evaluate a portable heel bone mineral density (BMD) technique regarding hip and fragility fracture risk among elderly women. METHODS: In a popu...

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Autores principales: Albertsson, Daniel, Mellström, Dan, Petersson, Christer, Thulesius, Hans, Eggertsen, Robert
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20334634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-11-55

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20334634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-11-55

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