Difference in bone mass between black and white American children: Attributable to body build, sex hormone levels, or bone turnover?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 642-649

  Hui, Siu L ^a,b   Dimeglio, Linda A ^a   Longcope, Christopher ^c   Peacock, Munro ^a   McClintock, Ronald ^a   Perkins, Anthony J ^b   Johnston Jr , C Conrad ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CALCITRIOL; DEOXYPYRIDINOLINE; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; BONE TURNOVER; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOGENESIS; SEX FACTORS; SOMATOTYPES;

PIERINAE;

EID: 0037326028     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-020653     Document Type: Article

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