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- Title
Poverty is a risk factor for osteoporotic fractures.
- Authors
Navarro, M C; Sosa, M; Saavedra, P; Lainez, P; Marrero, M; Torres, M; Medina, C D
- Abstract
This study assesses the possible association between poverty and osteoporosis and/or fragility fractures in a population of postmenopausal women. We found that postmenopausal women with low socioeconomic status had lower values of BMD at the lumbar spine, a higher prevalence of densitometric osteoporosis, and a higher prevalence of total and vertebral fractures.
- Publication
Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2009, Vol 20, Issue 3, p393
- ISSN
1433-2965
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00198-008-0697-9