Do bone mineral density, bone geometry and the functional muscle-bone unit explain bone fractures in healthy children and adolescents?

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 312-318

  Beccard, Ralf ^a   Land, Christof ^b   Semler, Oliver ^a   Fricke, Oliver ^a   Remer, Thomas ^c   Stabrey, Angelika ^a   Schoenau, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Centre for Hormone and Metabolism Diseases   (Germany)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHILD NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone geometry; Bone mineral density; Functional muscle bone unit

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRESS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DYNAMOMETER; FEMALE; FOREARM; FRACTURE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIOSTEUM; PINCH STRENGTH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIUS; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149332033     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313380     Document Type: Article

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