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Fracture rates in urban South African children of different ethnic origins: The Birth to Twenty Cohort

SUMMARY: Fracture rates were compared in children of different ethnic backgrounds from Johannesburg, South Africa. More white children fracture than black and mixed ancestry children. Reasons for this may be due to greater sports participation by whites and genetic protective factors in blacks. This...

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Autores principales: Thandrayen, K., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18465189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00198-008-0627-x