Ecuador: Normative Calcaneal Quantitative Ultrasound Data For The Indigenous Shuar And ...

Ecuador: Normative Calcaneal Quantitative Ultrasound Data For The Indigenous Shuar And Non-Shuar Colonos Of The Ecuadorian Amazon Felicia C. Madimenos, J. Josh Snodgrass, Aaron D. Blackwell, Melissa A. Liebert, Tara J. Cepon, and Lawrence S. Sugiyama, 2011   Summary: Minimal data on bone mineral density changes are available from populations in developing countries. Using calcaneal quantitative ultrasound (QUS) techniques, the current study contributes to remedying this gap in the...

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