Adjusting bone mass for differences in projected bone area and other confounding variables: An allometric perspective

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 703-708

  Nevill, Alan M ^a   Holder, Roger L ^b   Maffulli, Nicola ^c,d   Cheng, Jack C Y ^d   Leung, Sophie S S F ^d   Lee, Warren T K ^d   Lau, Joseph T F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Allometric model; Confounding variables; Exercise; Multiplicative error; Projected bone area

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ALLOMETRY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRUCTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATURATION; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX; THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; BONE DENSITY; CHILD; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINE;

EID: 0036129137     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.2002.17.4.703     Document Type: Article

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