The Epidemiology of Hip and Major Osteoporotic Fractures in a Dutch Population of Community-Dwelling Elderly: Implications for the Dutch FRAX® Algorithm

BACKGROUND: Incidence rates of non-hip major osteoporotic fractures (MOF) remain poorly characterized in the Netherlands. The Dutch FRAX® algorithm, which predicts 10-year probabilities of hip fracture and MOF (first of hip, humerus, forearm, clinical vertebral), therefore incorporates imputed MOF r...

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Autores principales: Klop, Corinne, Welsing, Paco M. J., Leufkens, Hubert G. M., Elders, Petra J. M., Overbeek, Jetty A., van den Bergh, Joop P., Bijlsma, Johannes W. J., de Vries, Frank
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/PMC4669166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26633011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143800

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