TY - JOUR
T1 - Involutional Osteoporosis
AU - Riggs, B. Lawrence
AU - Melton, L. Joseph
PY - 1986/6/26
Y1 - 1986/6/26
N2 - OSTEOPOROSIS is an enormous public health problem, responsible for at least 1.2 million fractures in the United States each year. The sites of these fractures are the vertebrae in 538,000 cases, the hip in 227,000, the distal forearm (Colles' fracture) in 172,000, and other limb sites in 283,0001 (and Melton LJ, Riggs BL: unpublished data). One third of women over 65 will have vertebral fractures (Melton LJ, Riggs BL: unpublished data). By extreme old age, one of every three women and one of every six men will have had a hip fracture.2 This catastrophic type of fracture is fatal in…
AB - OSTEOPOROSIS is an enormous public health problem, responsible for at least 1.2 million fractures in the United States each year. The sites of these fractures are the vertebrae in 538,000 cases, the hip in 227,000, the distal forearm (Colles' fracture) in 172,000, and other limb sites in 283,0001 (and Melton LJ, Riggs BL: unpublished data). One third of women over 65 will have vertebral fractures (Melton LJ, Riggs BL: unpublished data). By extreme old age, one of every three women and one of every six men will have had a hip fracture.2 This catastrophic type of fracture is fatal in…
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198606263142605
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198606263142605
M3 - Review article
C2 - 3520321
AN - SCOPUS:0022625922
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 314
SP - 1676
EP - 1686
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 26
ER -