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Members of the European Prospective Osteoporosis Study Group (EPOS):Project Coordinators: J. Reeve, Cambridge, UK; A. J. Silman, Manchester, UK.Principal Investigators: Prof. Donato Agnusdei, Siena, Italy; Dr Dietrich Banzer, Berlin, Germany; Prof. L. I. Benevolenskaya, Moscow, Russia; Dr Ashok Bhalla, Bath, UK; Dr J. Bruges Armas, Azors, Portugal; Prof. J. B. Cannata, Oviedo, Spain; Dr Juliet Compston, Cambridge, UK; Prof. P. D. Delmas, Lyon, France; Prof. Dr J. DeQueker, Leuven, Belgium; Prof. G. Dilsen, Istanbul, Turkey; Prof. E. K. Dretakis, Crete, Greece; Dr Olga Ershova, Yaroslavl, Russia; Dr Jan A. Falch, Aker, Norway; Dr B. Felsch, Jena, Germany; Dr Dieter Felsenberg, Berlin, Germany; Prof. Fernando Galan Galan, Sevilla, Spain; Prof. S. Havelka, Praha, Czech Republic; Dr K. Hoszowski, Warsaw, Poland; Prof. I. Jajic, Zagreb, Croatia; Dr Olof Johnell, Malmö, Sweden; Prof. K.-T. Khaw, Cambridge, UK; Dr U. Kragl, Erfurt, Germany; Dr Heikki Kröger, Kuopio, Finland; Dr Paul Lips, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Prof. A. Lopes Vaz, Oporto, Portugal; Prof. R. S. Lorenc, Warsaw, Poland; Prof. G. Lyritis, Athens, Greece; Dr François Marchand, Montceaules-Mines, France; Dr P. Masaryk, Piestany, Slovakia; Dr T. Miazgowski, Szczecin, Poland; Prof. Ramon Perez Cano, Sevilla, Spain; Dr Huibert A. P. Pols, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Dr Gyula Poor, Budapest, Hungary; Dr Aurelio Rapado, Madrid, Spain; Prof. H. Raspe, Lübeck, Germany; Dr J. Reeve, Cambridge, UK; Dr David M. Reid, Aberdeen, UK; Prof. W. Reisinger, Berlin, Germany; Prof. H. Schatz, Bochum, Germany; Dr C. Scheidt-Nave, Heidelberg, Germany; Prof. Alan Silman, Manchester, UK; Prof. Jan Stepan, Praha, Czech Republic; Dr C. Todd, Cambridge, UK; Dr Kurt Weber, Graz, Austria; Dr Anthony Woolf, Cornwall, UK.

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Reeve, J. The European prospective osteoporosis study. Osteoporosis Int 6 (Suppl 3), 16–18 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01623758

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