High prevalence of low bone mineral density in patients within 10 years of onset of ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic review

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• who: Osteopenia . Osteoporosis . and collaborators from the Department of Rheumatology, VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands have published the research work: High prevalence of low bone mineral density in patients within 10 years of onset of ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic review, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
• what: The authors focused at the clinical relevance of low BMD in this early population, especially in relation with the risk of vertebral fractures, since vertebral fractures are a major and serious cause of morbidity in long-standing AS patients. The studies described here dealt differently with the other risk . . .
  

   

  

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