Fluorides and Osteoporosis
February 25, 1967
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The Lancet
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Meema HE.
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289(7487):444.
SIR, - In your annotation (Jan 28, p. 203) the preventive action of fluorides on osteoporosis is said to be confirmed by the recent findings of Bernstein et al. While it is quite possible that fluorides may have such an effect, the cited article has several deficiencies which in my opinion are severe enough to cast doubt on the validity of the results.
Of the factors known to influence the development and severity of involutional osteoporosis, age is of prime importance. In the paper under scru