ea0081p37 | Calcium and Bone | ECE2022
Tordjman Karen
, Rouach Vanessa
, Bodas Moran
, Givon Adi
, Jaffe Anat
, Goldshtein Inbal
, Greenman Yona
Background: Among the various ethnicities in the Israeli mosaic, the Ethiopian community is the most recently settled, with an immigration that started less than 40 years ago. Largely young, this 160,000-member community comprises nonetheless about 25,000 persons 50 years or older, virtually all born in Ethiopia. Despite this growing aging population, there is no knowledge regarding osteoporotic fractures in this unique East African ethnic group, not even from data originating...