African Americans have lower TBS than whites among densitometry patients at a Chicago academic center

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• 作者：R. K. Jain ; T. J. Vokes
• 关键词：African Americans ; Ethnicity ; Osteoporosis ; Trabecular bone score
• 刊名：Osteoporosis International
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：28
• 期：3
• 页码：917-923
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Orthopedics; Endocrinology; Rheumatology;
• 出版者：Springer London
• ISSN：1433-2965
• 卷排序：28

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SummaryTrabecular bone score, an indirect measure of bone structure, may differ between ethnicities. We found that African Americans had lower trabecular bone score than do whites referred for densitometry, even when controlling for age and abdominal soft tissue thickness.