Shifting the focus in fracture prevention from osteoporosis to falls
- 17 January 2008
- Vol. 336 (7636), 124-126
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39428.470752.ad
Abstract
Preventing fractures in older people is important. But Teppo Järvinen and colleagues believe that we should be putting our efforts into stopping falls not treating low bone mineral densityThis publication has 40 references indexed in Scilit:
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