Bone metabolism in adolescent athletes with amenorrhea, athletes with eumenorrhea, and control subjects

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1127-1136

  Christo, Karla ^a   Prabhakaran, Rajani ^a   Lamparello, Brooke ^a   Cord, Jennalee ^a   Miller, Karen K ^a   Goldstein, Mark A ^a   Gupta, Nupur ^a   Herzog, David B ^a   Klibanski, Anne ^a   Misra, Madhusmita ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Athletes; Bone density; Bone Turnover markers; Insulin like growth factor i

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; BONE METABOLISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; MENSTRUATION; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; ADOLESCENT; BONE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPORT;

ADOLESCENT; AMENORRHEA; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; SPORTS;

EID: 48949088771     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-2392     Document Type: Article

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