TY - JOUR
AU - Looker, Anne
AB - Arch Osteoporos (2013) 8:141 DOI 10.1007/s11657-013-0141-4 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Femur neck bone mineral density and fracture risk by age, sex, and race or Hispanic origin in older US adults from NHANES III Anne C. Looker Received: 29 October 2012 /Accepted: 23 April 2013 /Published online: 29 May 2013 International Osteoporosis Foundation and National Osteoporosis Foundation 2013 Abstract origin, but all three variables remained significant predictors Summary Differences in the relationship between femur neck of fracture risk. bone mineral density (FNBMD) and fracture risk were exam- Conclusions FNBMD had similar, significant predictive ined by age, sex, and race/ethnicity in the third National utility within age, sex, and race/Hispanic origin subgroups. Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) However, FNBMD did not appear to completely account for cohort. FNBMD had similar, significant predictive utility for fracture risk differences in these subgroups. Similarity of fracture in the different subgroups, but it did not completely HR’s for T scores calculated with two different reference account for subgroup differences in risk. databases support use of a uniform reference database to Purpose Few previous studies of FNBMD and fracture risk calculate these scores. examined the relationship by age, sex, and race within the . . . 
TI - Femur neck bone mineral density and fracture risk by age, sex, and race or Hispanic origin in older US adults from NHANES III
JF - Archives of Osteoporosis
DO - 10.1007/s11657-013-0141-4
DA - 2013-05-29
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/femur-neck-bone-mineral-density-and-fracture-risk-by-age-sex-and-race-9GT3OqjH1j
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EP - 11
VL - 8
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