Comparison of predictors of hip fracture and mortality after hip fracture in community-dwellers with and without Alzheimer’s disease – exposure-matched cohort study

BACKGROUND: Dementia, with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) being the most common form, is a major hip fracture risk factor, but currently it is not known whether the same factors predict hip fracture among persons with and without dementia/AD. We compared the predictors of hip fracture and mortality after...

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Autores principales: Tolppanen, Anna-Maija, Taipale, Heidi, Tanskanen, Antti, Tiihonen, Jari, Hartikainen, Sirpa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5134120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27908278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0383-2

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