The muscle-bone unit in adulthood: Influence of sex, height, age and gynecological history on the bone mineral content and muscle cross-sectional area

Journal of Musculoskeletal Neuronal Interactions

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-200

  Sumnik, Z ^a,c   Land, C ^a   Coburger, S ^a   Neu, C ^a   Manz, F ^b   Hrach, K ^d   Schoenau, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHILD NUTRITION   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^d J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bone Mineral Content; Estrogens; Muscle; Osteoporosis; Peripheral QCT

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE MINERAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; LACTATION; MALE; MENARCHE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATION; MALE; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; RADIUS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746915626     PISSN: 11087161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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