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Postmenopausal Canarian women receiving oral glucocorticoids have an increased prevalence of vertebral fractures and low values of bone mineral density measured by quantitative computer tomography and dual X-ray absorptiometry, without significant changes in parathyroid hormone

✍ Scribed by M. Sosa; E. Jódar; P. Saavedra; M.C. Navarro; M.J. Gómez de Tejada; A. Martín; P. Peña; J. Gómez

Book ID: 116431946
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 262 KB
Volume: 19
Category: Article
ISSN: 0953-6205
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2007.08.005

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