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Volume 2 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/rehabilitation.2.013
Long-Term Use of Oral Bisphosphonates and Fracture Risk in Men with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
Laura D. Carbone1,2, *, Beverly Gonzalez3,4,5,6, Scott Miskevics3, Cara Ray3, Bella Etingen3, Marylou Guihan3,4, B. Catharine Craven7, Frances M. Weaver3,8
- 8Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Maywood, IL, USA
- 1Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA, USA
- 2Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair in Rheumatology, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
- 3Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare, Edward J. Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL USA
- 4Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL USA
- 5Department of Biostatistics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL USA
- 6Department of Mathematics, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL USA
- 7Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Corresponding Author
Laura Carbone, lcarbone@augusta.edu
Received Date: June 05, 2020
Accepted Date: July 08, 2020
Carbone L, Gonzalez B, Miskevics S, Ray C, Etingen B, Guihan M, et al. Long-Term Use of Oral Bisphosphonates and Fracture Risk in Men with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. J Phys Med Rehabil 2020; 2(2): 40-44.
Copyright: © 2020 Carbone L, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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