The relationship of absolute poverty and bone mineral density in postmenopausal Iranian women

Mohammad Amiri, Iraj Nabipour (), Bagher Larijani, Saeideh Beigi, Majid Assadi, Zahra Amiri and Shiva Mosadeghzadeh

International Journal of Public Health, 2008, vol. 53, issue 6, 290-296

Abstract: Postmenopausal women under the absolute poverty lines had lower BMDs at all skeletal sites, independent of established osteoporosis risk factors. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2008

Keywords: Poverty; Socioeconomic status; Menopause; Osteoporosis; Bone mineral density; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-008-8033-x

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