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Introduction: Nutrition research has traditionally promoted a nutrient-based approach; however, to evaluate population compliance with dietary recommendations, researchers have increasingly used dietary pattern analysis.

Objective: To assess the relationship between dietary patterns and vitamin D and calcium intake in an adult Mexican population.

Methods: We characterized the dietary patterns of 8,456 men and women aged 20-80 years who were participating in the Health Workers Cohort Study.

Health care costs of osteopenia, osteoporosis, and fragility fractures in Mexico.

Unlabelled: Different sources were used to estimate the 2010 health care costs of managing low bone density (osteopenia/osteoporosis) plus caring fragility fractures in Mexico at 411 million USD. Figures are projected to rise 42 % by 2020. Preventive and timely interventions are required to decrease the financial burden of these entities.

Bone quality and nutritional status in children with congenital heart defects.

The aim of this study was to evaluate bone quality and nutritional status in children with congenital heart defects (CHDs) using quantitative ultrasound. A cross-sectional study was designed. A population-based sample of 75 children with CHD (age: 0--6yr) from the Department of Pediatric Cardiology at the National Cardiology Institute "Ignacio Chávez" was compared with 106 healthy children during 2009.