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Osteoporosis in Hypertensive and Non-hypertensive Subjects-An Epidemiologic Approach to the Etiology of Osteoporosis

Year: 1968

Type: article

Abstract: Direct enlargement roentgenograms of the lumbar vertebral bodies were ex-amined on 129 subjects in the sixth and seventh decades composed of hypertensive patients and non-hypertensive controls from the out-patient clinics of the Tohoku University Hospital in Sendai, Japan. The roentgenographic findings were classified into three grades accord-ing to osteoporotic changes. The incidence of osteoporotic change was found to be significantly higher in the sixties than in the fifties for females and also significantly higher in hypertensive than in non-hypertensive females.

Source: The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

DOI: 10.1620/tjem.94.225

Authors: Sigetosi Kamiyama, Satoru Kobayashi, Eiji Takahashi, Eikichi Wakamatsu, Tatsuya Kurashina

Institution: Tohoku University

Language: English

Topic: Bone health and osteoporosis research

Subfield: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2149002227

FWCI: 5.576

Cites: 8

Cited by: 9

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