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The global perspective of osteoporosis

The ILAR Lecture, June 2004, Berlin

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Woolf, A.D. The global perspective of osteoporosis. Clin Rheumatol 25, 613–618 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-006-0265-7

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