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Guideline
. 2014 Oct;25(10):2359-81.
doi: 10.1007/s00198-014-2794-2. Epub 2014 Aug 15.

Clinician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis

F Cosman  1 , S J de Beur, M S LeBoff, E M Lewiecki, B Tanner, S Randall, R Lindsay; National Osteoporosis Foundation
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Clinician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis

F Cosman et al. Osteoporos Int. 2014 Oct.

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Abstract

The Clinician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis was developed by an expert committee of the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) in collaboration with a multispecialty council of medical experts in the field of bone health convened by NOF. Readers are urged to consult current prescribing information on any drug, device, or procedure discussed in this publication.

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Micrographs of normal vs. osteoporotic bone [9], from Dempster et al., with permission of The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research [9]
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Pathogenesis of osteoporosis-related fractures, from Cooper and Melton, with modification [10]
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Z- and T-scores in women, from ISCD Bone Densitometry Clinician Course, Lecture 5 (2008), with permission of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry
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Comment in

  • Screening for osteoporosis.
    Altkorn D, Cifu AS. Altkorn D, et al. JAMA. 2015 Apr 14;313(14):1467-8. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.1064. JAMA. 2015. PMID: 25871674 No abstract available.

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