1. Preface

   • Tsutomu Hashimoto
   • Tetsuya Tamaki

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 4

2. List of contributors and participants

   Legacy Pages: 5 - 6

3. Review on population-based prevalence and incidence of vertebral fractures

   • Saeko Fujiwara
   • Yutaka Hosoda

   Review Pages: 9 - 11

4. Comparing vertebral fracture prevalence between populations

   • Philip D. Ross

   Review Pages: 12 - 14

5. Hip fracture incidence in Japan

   • Hajime Orimo
   • Yutaka Hosoda
   • Ryuichiro Sasaki

   Original Articles Pages: 15 - 19

6. Epidemiology of femoral neck fractures in 1989, niigata prefecture, Japan

   • Yoichiro Dohmae
   • Hideaki Takahashi
   • Saburo Nishida

   Review Pages: 20 - 24

7. Epidemiology of osteoporotic limb fractures in tottori prefecture, Japan

   • Hiroshi Hagino
   • Kichizo Yamamoto
   • Hitoshi Ohshiro

   Review Pages: 25 - 28

8. Incidence of femoral neck fracture in 1988 in Wakayama prefecture

   • Shigeto Danjoh
   • Tetsuya Tamaki
   • Tsutomu Hashimoto

   Original Articles Pages: 29 - 32

9. Hip fracture in elderly Japanese women; a review

   • Tatsuhiko Nakamura
   • Kichizou Yamamoto
   • Hitoshi Ohshiro

   Review Pages: 33 - 34

10. The need for case-control studies of hip fracture

    • Philip D. Ross

    Review Pages: 35 - 37

11. Lateral scanning of the lumbar spine: Bone mineral density determination with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry

    • Masao Fukunaga
    • Tatsushi Tomomitsu
    • Rikushi Morita

    Review Pages: 41 - 43

12. Cross calibrated standard values of vertebral bone mineral density in Japanese

    • Masataka Shiraki
    • Masao Fukunaga
    • Hajime Orimo

    Original Articles Pages: 44 - 49

13. Epidemiological study on the bone mineral density of inhabitants in Miyama Village, Wakayama prefecture (Part I) background of study population and sampling method

    • Takahiro Kasamatsu
    • Seiji Morioka
    • Tetsuya Tamaki

    Original Articles Pages: 50 - 55

14. Epidemiological study on the bone mineral density of inhabitants in Miyama Village, Wakayama prefecture (Part II) bone mineral density of the spine and proximal femur

    • Hirofumi Kinoshita
    • Shigeto Danjoh
    • Tsutomu Hashimoto

    Original Articles Pages: 56 - 60

15. Epidemiology of osteoporosis in Okinawa

    • Tomoaki Yoshikawa
    • Hiromichi Norimatsu

    Original Articles Pages: 61 - 71

16. Bone mass and other risk factors for fracture

    • Philip D. Ross

    Review Pages: 72 - 76

17. Osteoporosis — Is it the same all over the world?

    • Takuo Fujita
    • Masahiro Ohata

    Epilogue Pages: 77 - 77