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Calcium-PTH-vitamin D axis in older patients with hip fracture

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Fisher, A.A., Davis, M.W. Calcium-PTH-vitamin D axis in older patients with hip fracture. Osteoporos Int 18, 693–695 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-006-0284-x

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