CONTEXT: It is believed that about 25% of menopausal women in the USA will exhibit some kind of fracture as a consequence of osteoporosis. Fractures of the proximal femur are associated with a greater number of deaths and disabilities and higher medical expenses than all the other osteoporotic fractures together. OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical and epidemiological features of patients with proximal femur fracture in hospitals in São Paulo. DESIGN: Transversal and retrospective study. LOCAL: Hospital São Paulo and Hospital Servidor Público Estadual Francisco Morato Oliveira. PARTICIPANTS: Patients aged sixty-five years or more hospitalized because of proximal femur fracture, from March to November 1996 (N = 73). This group was compared to p...
Fibromyalgia (FM), characterized by generalized muscle pain, fatigue, depression (49% to 80% of case...
In this PhD thesis, we aimed to determine the prevalence and burden of osteoporosis and fragility fr...
Tese de doutoramento em Antropologia, na especialidade de Antropologia Biológica, apresentada à Facu...
OBJECTIVE: To know the morbid-mortality following an osteoporotic hip fracture in elderly patients l...
OBJETIVE: This study was developed with the main purpose of evaluating treatment results of proximal...
Dissertação de Mestrado em Evolução Humana, apresentada ao Departamento de Ciências da Vida da Facul...
ResumoObjetivosComparar o índice de massa corporal (IMC) de pacientes com fratura da extremidade pro...
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence and analyze risk factors associated to osteoporosis and low-tr...
Este trabajo ha sido parcialmente presentado como póster con defensa en el 34.o Congreso de la Socie...
Peri prosthetic fracture is a rare pathology in general, although in recent decades a clear increase...
A retrospective clinical descritive and histochemical study envolving cases of periferic bone fibrom...
ResumoObjetivoMedir a prevalência da profilaxia medicamentosa primária de fraturas por osteoporose e...
Tese de doutoramento, Medicina (Endocrinologia), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina, 2018...
Frailty fractures occur globally every 3 seconds, with a high socioeconomic impact on morbidity, mo...
Glucocorticoids (GC) are used in almost all medical specialties, and approximately 0.5% of the gener...
Fibromyalgia (FM), characterized by generalized muscle pain, fatigue, depression (49% to 80% of case...
In this PhD thesis, we aimed to determine the prevalence and burden of osteoporosis and fragility fr...
Tese de doutoramento em Antropologia, na especialidade de Antropologia Biológica, apresentada à Facu...
OBJECTIVE: To know the morbid-mortality following an osteoporotic hip fracture in elderly patients l...
OBJETIVE: This study was developed with the main purpose of evaluating treatment results of proximal...
Dissertação de Mestrado em Evolução Humana, apresentada ao Departamento de Ciências da Vida da Facul...
ResumoObjetivosComparar o índice de massa corporal (IMC) de pacientes com fratura da extremidade pro...
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence and analyze risk factors associated to osteoporosis and low-tr...
Este trabajo ha sido parcialmente presentado como póster con defensa en el 34.o Congreso de la Socie...
Peri prosthetic fracture is a rare pathology in general, although in recent decades a clear increase...
A retrospective clinical descritive and histochemical study envolving cases of periferic bone fibrom...
ResumoObjetivoMedir a prevalência da profilaxia medicamentosa primária de fraturas por osteoporose e...
Tese de doutoramento, Medicina (Endocrinologia), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina, 2018...
Frailty fractures occur globally every 3 seconds, with a high socioeconomic impact on morbidity, mo...
Glucocorticoids (GC) are used in almost all medical specialties, and approximately 0.5% of the gener...
Fibromyalgia (FM), characterized by generalized muscle pain, fatigue, depression (49% to 80% of case...
In this PhD thesis, we aimed to determine the prevalence and burden of osteoporosis and fragility fr...
Tese de doutoramento em Antropologia, na especialidade de Antropologia Biológica, apresentada à Facu...