Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 765-785, October 2008

Osteoporosis and osteoporotic fracture occurrence and prevention in the elderly: a geriatric perspective

  • Steven Boonen, MD, PhD (Professor of Geriatric Medicine; holder of the Leuven University Chair in Metabolic Bone Diseases, and senior clinical investigator of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders, Belgium)

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  • Dirk Vanderschueren, MD, PhD (Professor of Medicine and senior clinical investigator of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders, Belgium)
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  • Katrien Venken (Postductoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research–Flanders, Belgium)
  • Koen Milisen, RN, PhD (Associate Professor in Geriatric Nursing and Clinical Nurse Specialist)

Leuven University Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease and Division of Geriatric Medicine, UZ Leuven campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium

Leuven University Division of Geriatric Medicine, Leuven, Belgium

Leuven University Department of Experimental Medicine and Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, Leuven, Belgium Katrien Venken Postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders, Belgium

Leuven University Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Leuven, Belgium

Leuven University Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Leuven, Belgium

Leuven University Division of Geriatric Medicine and Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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PII: S1521-690X(08)00080-8

doi:10.1016/j.beem.2008.07.002

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 765-785, October 2008

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