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Osteoporosis - a current view of pharmacological prevention and treatment.
Drug design, development and therapy - 1 Jan 2013
Das Subhajit, Crockett Julie C
Abstract excerpt
Postmenopausal osteoporosis is the most common bone disease, associated with low bone mineral density (BMD) and pathological fractures which lead to significant morbidity. It is defined clinically by a BMD of 2.5 standard deviations or more below the young female adult mean (T-score =-2.5). Osteoporosis was a huge global problem both socially and economically - in the UK alone, in 2011 £6 million per day was...
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