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Osteoporosis Diagnosis and Screening
9 Osteoporosis and osteoporotic fracture are major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide. Nearly half of all women and one quarter of men >50 years of age will experience an osteoporosisrelated fracture during their lifetime. The diagnosis of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and older men can be made definitively by comparing bone mineral density (BMD) measure...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Endocrinology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1759-5029,1759-5037
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2012.17