Incidental Vertebral Fractures Discovered With Chest Radiography in the Emergency Department
Open Access
- 25 April 2005
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 165 (8) , 905-909
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.165.8.905
Abstract
Osteoporosis is a chronic progressive condition that leads to decreased bone mass and skeletal fragility.1-3 In turn, this leads to fracture, disability, deformity, and even death.1-4 At least 1 million Canadian and 10 million US residents are afflicted.1-3 The annual cost of treating osteoporosis and its sequelae is $13.8 billion a year in the United States, compared with $7.5 billion for heart failure and $6.2 billion for asthma.3 The most common fracture associated with osteoporosis is the vertebral compression fracture.4-10This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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