Sex differences in bone size and bone mineral density exist before puberty. The Copenhagen School Child Intervention Study (CoSCIS)

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-14

  Hasselstrom H ^a   Karlsson, K M ^b,c   Hansen, S E ^a   Gronfeldt V ^a   Froberg, K ^d   Andersen, L B ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anthropometrics and body composition; Children; Dual energy X ray absorptiometry; Peripheral bone mineral density

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; DENMARK; DEVICE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; CHILD; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBERTY; RADIUS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; ULNA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33746913156     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-006-0012-8     Document Type: Article

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