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Urban-Rural Differences in Bone Mineral Density: A Cross Sectional Analysis Based on the Hyderabad Indian Migration Study

BACKGROUND: Fracture risk is rising in countries undergoing rapid rural to urban migration, but whether this reflects an adverse effect of urbanization on intrinsic bone strength, as reflected by bone mineral density (BMD), is currently unknown. METHODS: Lumbar spine (LS) and total hip (TH) BMD, and...

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Autores principales: Viljakainen, Heli T., Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Kinra, Sanjay, Ebrahim, Shah, Kuper, Hannah, Radhakrishna, K. V., Kulkarni, Bharati, Tobias, Jon H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4618924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26484878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140787