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Low bone mineral density among young healthy adult Saudi women

Prevalence and associated factors in the age group of 20 to 36 years

Zeidan A. Zeidan, Intisar E. Sultan, Shaista S. Guraya, Abdulmohsen H. Al-Zalabani and Khalid I. Khoshhal
Saudi Medical Journal November 2016, 37 (11) 1225-1233; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.11.16248
Zeidan A. Zeidan
From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Zeidan, Al-Zalabani), Internal Medicine (Sultan), Radiology (Guraya), and Orthopedics (Khoshhal), College of Medicine, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Intisar E. Sultan
From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Zeidan, Al-Zalabani), Internal Medicine (Sultan), Radiology (Guraya), and Orthopedics (Khoshhal), College of Medicine, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Shaista S. Guraya
From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Zeidan, Al-Zalabani), Internal Medicine (Sultan), Radiology (Guraya), and Orthopedics (Khoshhal), College of Medicine, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulmohsen H. Al-Zalabani
From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Zeidan, Al-Zalabani), Internal Medicine (Sultan), Radiology (Guraya), and Orthopedics (Khoshhal), College of Medicine, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Khalid I. Khoshhal
From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Zeidan, Al-Zalabani), Internal Medicine (Sultan), Radiology (Guraya), and Orthopedics (Khoshhal), College of Medicine, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 37 no. 11 1225-1233
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.11.16248
PubMed 
27761561

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 21, 2016
  • Accepted August 17, 2016
  • Published online November 1, 2016.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Zeidan A. Zeidan, MBBS, MD⇑,
  2. Intisar E. Sultan, MBBS, MD,
  3. Shaista S. Guraya, MBBS, MD,
  4. Abdulmohsen H. Al-Zalabani, MBBS, ABCM and
  5. Khalid I. Khoshhal, FRCS(ED)
  1. From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Zeidan, Al-Zalabani), Internal Medicine (Sultan), Radiology (Guraya), and Orthopedics (Khoshhal), College of Medicine, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Zeidan A. Zeidan, Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: drziedan{at}gmail.com
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