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Are Young Women and Men with Rheumatoid Arthritis at Risk for Fragility Fractures? A Population-based Study

Shreyasee Amin, Sherine E. Gabriel, Sara J. Achenbach, Elizabeth J. Atkinson and L. Joseph Melton III
The Journal of Rheumatology October 2013, 40 (10) 1669-1676; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.121493

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RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
BONE FRACTURES
OSTEOPOROSIS
EPIDEMIOLOGY

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