Risk Factors for Hip Fracture in Black Women
Open Access
- 2 June 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (22) , 1555-1559
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199406023302202
Abstract
Although more than 1 percent of black women 80 years of age or older have hip fractures each year, little is known about risk factors for hip fracture in these women.Keywords
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