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Gender Disparities in Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a growing health concern worldwide and its complications are as prevalent as other common chronic disease complications such as hypertension and diabetes. In this review, we will discuss the role of gender in osteoporosis, especially related to peak bone mass and maturation, rate of...

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Autor principal: Alswat, Khaled A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28392857
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jocmr2970w
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description Osteoporosis is a growing health concern worldwide and its complications are as prevalent as other common chronic disease complications such as hypertension and diabetes. In this review, we will discuss the role of gender in osteoporosis, especially related to peak bone mass and maturation, rate of annual bone loss, screening, prevalence of osteoporosis and its related fractures, mortality after osteoporosis-related fracture, fracture risk predication using different technologies and the impact of gender on osteoporosis management.
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spelling pubmed-53801702017-04-07 Gender Disparities in Osteoporosis Alswat, Khaled A. J Clin Med Res Review Osteoporosis is a growing health concern worldwide and its complications are as prevalent as other common chronic disease complications such as hypertension and diabetes. In this review, we will discuss the role of gender in osteoporosis, especially related to peak bone mass and maturation, rate of annual bone loss, screening, prevalence of osteoporosis and its related fractures, mortality after osteoporosis-related fracture, fracture risk predication using different technologies and the impact of gender on osteoporosis management. Elmer Press 2017-05 2017-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5380170/ /pubmed/28392857 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jocmr2970w Text en Copyright 2017, Alswat et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Gender Disparities in Osteoporosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380170/
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