Birth weight predicts bone size in young adulthood at cortical sites in men and trabecular sites in women from The Gambia

Bone

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1316-1321

  de Bono, Stephanie ^a   Schoenmakers, Inez ^a   Ceesay, Mustapha ^b   Mendy, Michael ^b   Laskey, M Ann ^a   Cole, Tim J ^c   Prentice, Ann ^a,b  

^a MRC HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Keneba ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Bone size; Cortical; Gambia; Trabecular

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FOREARM; GAMBIA; GENDER; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; SPINE; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE; WHOLE BODY CT;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADOLESCENT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951252280     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2010.01.381     Document Type: Article

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