Age-related patterns of trabecular and cortical bone loss differ between sexes and skeletal sites: A population-based HR-pQCT study

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-62

  MacDonald, Heather M ^a   Nishiyama, Kyle K ^a   Kang, Jian ^a   Hanley, David A ^b   Boyd, Steven K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

AGING; BONE MICROARCHITECTURE; BONE STRENGTH; HIGH RESOLUTION PQCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BONE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOREARM FRACTURE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OSTEOLYSIS; PERIOSTEUM; POROSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; OSTEOPOROSIS; RADIUS; SELF REPORT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 78650942492     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.171     Document Type: Article

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