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The impact of preventive measures on the burden of femoral fractures – a modelling approach to estimating the impact of fall prevention exercises and oral bisphosphonate treatment for the years 2014 and 2025

BACKGROUND: Due to the demographic transition with a growing number of old and oldest-old persons the absolute number of fragility fractures is expected to increase in industrialized countries unless effective preventive efforts are intensified. The main causes leading to fractures are osteoporosis...

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Autores principales: Benzinger, Petra, Becker, Clemens, Todd, Chris, Bleibler, Florian, Rothenbacher, Dietrich, König, Hans-Helmut, Rapp, Kilian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27038629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0247-9