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Gradients of fracture risk on age and forearm bone mass, expressed as BMD (g/cm2) (redrawn from Hui et al.).3 Note that, while risk rises as BMD falls, it increases even more strikingly with age, holding BMD constant.
Copyright Robert P. Heaney, 1994. Used with permission.
