Current socio-economic measures, and not those measured during infancy, affect bone mass in poor urban South African children

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1409-1416

  Norris, Shane A ^a   Sheppard, Zoë A ^b   Griffiths, Paula L ^a,b   Cameron, Noël ^a,b   Pettifor, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone mass; Children; Poverty; Socio economic status; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MASS; CALCIUM INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; INCOME; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POVERTY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AFRICA; TELEVISION; URBAN POPULATION;

BONE AND BONES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 49349093820     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.080415     Document Type: Article

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