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Smoking predicts incident fractures in elderly men: Mr OS Sweden

  1. Hans Jutberger1,
  2. Mattias Lorentzon1,
  3. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor2,
  4. Helena Johansson1,
  5. John A Kanis3,
  6. Östen Ljunggren4,
  7. Magnus K Karlsson5,
  8. Björn E Rosengren5,
  9. Inga Redlund-Johnell6,
  10. Eric Orwoll7,
  11. Claes Ohlsson1,
  12. Dan Mellström1,*

Article first published online: 14 DEC 2009

DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.091112

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Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volume 25, Issue 5, pages 1010–1016, May 2010

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Jutberger, H., Lorentzon, M., Barrett-Connor, E., Johansson, H., Kanis, J. A., Ljunggren, Ö., Karlsson, M. K., Rosengren, B. E., Redlund-Johnell, I., Orwoll, E., Ohlsson, C. and Mellström, D. (2010), Smoking predicts incident fractures in elderly men: Mr OS Sweden. J Bone Miner Res, 25: 1010–1016. doi: 10.1359/jbmr.091112

Author Information

  1. 1

    Centre for Bone Research at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  2. 2

    Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California–San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

  3. 3

    WHO Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  4. 4

    Department of Medical Sciences, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

  5. 5

    Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, and Department of Orthopedics, Malmö University Hospitals, Malmö, Sweden

  6. 6

    Department of Radiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  7. 7

    Bone and Mineral Research Unit, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA

*Centre for Bone Research at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gibraltargatan 1C, 411 32 Gothenburg, Sweden.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 30 APR 2010
  2. Article first published online: 14 DEC 2009
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 27 JAN 2010 12:00AM EST
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 20 NOV 2009
  5. Manuscript Revised: 29 SEP 2009
  6. Manuscript Received: 3 JUL 2009

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