Anthropometric, lifestyle and menstrual factors influencing size-adjusted bone mineral content in a multiethnic population of premenopausal women

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2968-2976

  Davis, James W ^a   Novotny, Rachel ^b   Ross, Philip D ^a   Wasnich, Richard D ^a  

^a Hawaii Osteoporosis Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone density; Ethnicity; Humans; Nutrition; Premenopause

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MINERAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LIFESTYLE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; PREDICTION; PREMENOPAUSE;

EID: 0030472681     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/126.12.2968     Document Type: Article

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