Fracture risk assessment in osteoporosis management.
Osteoporosis--a chronic, debilitating disease--predisposes patients to fractures of the hip, spine, vertebrae, and other skeletal sites. For many years, measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) has been the primary method of determining patients' need for osteoporosis pharmacotherapy. Although BMD...
| Publicado en: | American Journal for Nurse Practitioners Vol. 13; no. 9; pp. 36 - 40 |
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| Formato: | pictorial tables/charts Journal Article |
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NP Communications, LLC (New Jersey)
Sep2009
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