Menstrual status and bone mineral density among female athletes

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 259-265

  Punpilai, Sriareporn ^a   Sujitra, Tiansawad ^a   Ouyporn, Tonmukayakul ^b   Teraporn, Vutyavanich ^a   Sombut, Boonyaprapa ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Eumenorrhea; Female athletes; Menstrual dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY FAT; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM INTAKE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPORT; THAILAND; THIGH; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; AGE; AMENORRHEA; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NURSING RESEARCH; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RADIODENSITOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMENORRHEA; BONE DENSITY; COHORT STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; NURSING RESEARCH; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORTS; THAILAND;

EID: 33644805438     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2005.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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