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About the Authors:
Julie A. Womack
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Joseph L. Goulet
Affiliation: VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Cynthia Gibert
Affiliation: Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
Cynthia Brandt
Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Chung Chou Chang
Affiliation: Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Barbara Gulanski
Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Liana Fraenkel
Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Kristin Mattocks
Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
David Rimland
Affiliation: Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas
Affiliation: Medical Service, Michael E. De Bakey Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Janet Tate
Affiliation: VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Michael T. Yin
Affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
Amy C. Justice
Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
for the Veterans Aging Cohort Study Project Team
Introduction
Low bone mineral density (BMD) is more common among HIV infected than uninfected individuals, potentially placing them at higher risk of fragility fracture.[1], [2], [3], [4] Studies comparing fragility fractures in HIV infected and...