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An epidemiological analysis of the incidence of osteoporosis and osteoporosis-related fractures among the Saudi Arabian population

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Osteoporosis is common in Saudi Arabia and the burden of management in an aging population will increase in coming decades. There is still no national policy nor consensus on screening for this silent disease. The objective of this analysis was to determine from the publis...

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Autores principales: Sadat-Ali, Mir, Al-Habdan, Ibrahim M., Al-Turki, Haifa A, Azam, Mohammed Quamar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6081105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23396029
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2012.637