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The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 39 Issue 3-4
published_at 1992-12
Quantitative Assessment of Relationships between Abdominal Aortic Calcification and Bone Mineral Content of Lumbar Vetebrae in the Elderly by Computed Tomography
Quantitative Assessment of Relationships between Abdominal Aortic Calcification and Bone Mineral Content of Lumbar Vetebrae in the Elderly by Computed Tomography
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The rerationship between adominalaortic calcification and osteoporosis in 224 elderly patients (82 men, 142 women, age ranged from 60 to 94 yrs [77.8 ± 7.6] ) was investigated by computed tomography. We calculated the aortic calcification index (ACI
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Abdominal aortic calcification
Osteoporosis
Bone mineral content
Atherosclerosis
Computed tomography
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