Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 671-685 , October 2008

Epidemiology of osteoporosis

  • Christopher Holroyd, BM, MRCP (SpR in Rheumatology)
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  • Cyrus Cooper, MA, DM, FRCP, FFPH, FMedSci (Professor of Rheumatology Director, MRC Resource Centre, Southampton)
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  • Elaine Dennison, MB, BChir, MA, MRCP, MSc Phd (Reader and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 23 8077 7624; Fax: +44 23 8070 4021.

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doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.06.001

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