The amount of knowledge in Iranian female adolescents student about osteoporosis and its risk factors

• Main Authors: F Mirzaaghaee (Author), Z Moinfar (Author), S Eftekhari (Author), M Karimi Khezri (Author), M Mazidi (Author), M Aliramezani (Author), M Sedaghat (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2006-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background & Aim: Osteoporosis is a metabolic disease which is the result of gradual destruction of bone mass and its most serious and frequent complication is hip fracture. Because adolescent females are the high risk group of affecting this disease, the purpose of this study was to assay femal...