Journal article
Obesity is not protective against fracture in postmenopausal women: GLOW.
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence and incidence of clinical fractures in obese, postmenopausal women enrolled in the Global Longitudinal study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW). METHODS: This was a multinational, prospective, observational, population-based study carried out by 723 physician practices at 17 sites in 10 countries. A total of 60,393 women aged ≥ 55 years were included. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires that covered domains that included patient cha...
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- Published
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- Journal:
- American journal of medicine
- Volume:
- 124
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- 1043-1050
- Publication date:
- 2011-11-01
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- EISSN:
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1555-7162
- ISSN:
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0002-9343
- Source identifiers:
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206164
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- English
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- pubs:206164
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- 2011
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