Bone Loss and Physical Activity - A Bio Anthropological Perspective
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Bone Loss and Physical Activity - A Bio Anthropological Perspective
Increased life expectancy on the one hand and dramatically reduced physical activity in daily life on the other hand are characteristic features of postmodern life. Consequently Homo sapiens is increasingly confronted with the problems associated with accelerated bone loss, osteoporosis and osteoporosis related fractures. This is true of Industrialised countries as well as of threshold countrie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Osteoporosis and Physical Activity
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2329-9509
DOI: 10.4172/2329-9509.1000164