Association of osteopenia with curve severity in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A study of 919 girls

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1924-1932

  Lee, Warren T K ^a   Cheung, Catherine S K ^a   Tse, Yee K ^b   Guo, Xia ^c   Qin, Ling ^a   Lam, T P ^a   Ng, Bobby K W ^a   Cheng, Jack Chun Yiu ^a,d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; Anthropometry; Bone mineral content; Cobb's angle; Osteopenia; Spinal deformity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; COBB ANGLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; LEG LENGTH; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOPENIA; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE MALFORMATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SCOLIOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 29044436171     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-005-1964-7     Document Type: Article

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