Fracture Rates and Bone Density Among Postmenopausal Veteran and Non-Veteran Women From the Women’s Health Initiative | Zendy

Joanne LaFleur | Zendy; Eileen RillamasSun | Zendy; Cathleen ColónEmeric | Zendy; Kristin Knippenberg | Zendy; Kristine E. Ensrud | Zendy; Shelly L. Gray | Zendy; Jane A. Cauley | Zendy; Andrea Z. LaCroix | Zendy

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Fracture Rates and Bone Density Among Postmenopausal Veteran and Non-Veteran Women From the Women’s Health Initiative

Author(s) -

Joanne LaFleur,

Eileen RillamasSun,

Cathleen ColónEmeric,

Kristin Knippenberg,

Kristine E. Ensrud,

Shelly L. Gray,

Jane A. Cauley,

Andrea Z. LaCroix

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnv677

Subject(s) - medicine , hip fracture , osteoporosis , physical therapy , frax , confidence interval , hazard ratio , bone mineral , bone density , proportional hazards model , veterans affairs , cohort study , cohort , gerontology , osteoporotic fracture

Postmenopausal osteoporosis can impact quality-of-life even prefracture. To determine whether osteoporosis should be a greater concern in women Veterans versus non-Veterans, we compared fracture rates and bone mineral density (BMD) for Veterans and non-Veterans using Women's Health Initiative data.

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