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Original article
The risk of osteoporosis in patients with ankylosing spondylitis—A large retrospective matched cohort study
El riesgo de osteoporosis en pacientes con espondilitis anquilosante: un estudio retrospectivo de cohortes emparejadas
Kassem Sharifa,b,c, Avishai M. Tsurb,c,d,e, Niv Ben-Shabatb,c, Abdulla Watadb,c,f, Arnon D. Coheng,h, Howard Amitalb,c,
Corresponding author
a Department of Gastroenterology, Sheba Medical Centre, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
b Department of Medicine B, Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, 5262100 Tel-Hashomer, Israel
c Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
d Israel Defense Forces, Medical Corps, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
e Department of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
f Section of Musculoskeletal Disease, NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, UK
g Chief Physicians Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
h Siaal Research Center for Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel