Bone mass and vertebral fractures in South African children on prolonged oral glucocorticoids for chronic non-malignant illnesses

INTRODUCTION: We hypothesized that the prevalence of vertebral fractures would be low and that bone mineral density (BMD) would be less severely affected in a black South African (SA) population treated with glucocorticoids (GCs) than that reported in mainly white populations. METHODS: All children...

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Autores principales: Thandrayen, Kebashni, Kala, Udai Keshav, Lala, Nilesh, Okudo, Grace, Parbhoo, Kiran Bhagoo, Moosa, Fatima Yakoub, Verwey, Charl, Hauptfleisch, Marc, Hajinicolaou, Christina, Ambaram, Priya Ramanlal, Mistry, Bhadrish Jayantkumar, Petersen, Karen Lavinia, Pettifor, John Morley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7887385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33644265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bonr.2021.100751

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