Rates of vertebral bone loss before and
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Richard Eastell; E. Rolland Dickson; Stephen F. Hodgson; Russell H. Wiesner; Mic
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Article
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1991
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Atraumatic fractures caused by osteoporosis may be a serious complication of primary biliary cirrhosis. Mean (&S.D.) bone mineral density in the lumbar spine in 210 ambulatory women with primary biliary cirrhosis was 1.02 +: 0.19 gm/cm2, 7% lower than that in 139 age-matched normal women (after adju