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Incident Hip Fractures among Community Dwelling Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease in a Finnish Nationwide Register-Based Cohort

BACKGROUND: Previous cohort studies have shown that persons with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have a higher risk of hip fractures but recent data from large representative cohorts is scarce. METHODS: We investigated the association between AD and prevalent and incident hip fractures in an exposure-match...

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Autores principales: Tolppanen, Anna-Maija, Lavikainen, Piia, Soininen, Hilkka, Hartikainen, Sirpa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3601105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23527106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059124