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Early-Onset Osteoporosis.
Calcified tissue international - 1 May 2022
Mäkitie Outi, Zillikens M Carola
Abstract excerpt
Osteoporosis is a skeletal disorder with enhanced bone fragility, usually affecting the elderly. It is very rare in children and young adults and the definition is not only based on a low BMD (a Z-score < - 2.0 in growing children and a Z-score ≤ - 2.0 or a T-score ≤ - 2.5 in young adults) but also on the occurrence of fragility fractures and/or the existence of underlying chronic diseases or secondary factors...
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