Bone microarchitecture is impaired in adolescent amenorrheic athletes compared with eumenorrheic athletes and nonathletic controls

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3123-3133

  Ackerman, Kathryn E ^a,b   Nazem, Taraneh ^a   Chapko, Dorota ^a   Russell, Melissa ^a   Mendes, Nara ^a   Taylor, Alexander P ^a   Bouxsein, Mary L ^a   Misra, Madhusmita ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY MASS; BONE AGE; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASE; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HIP; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; AMENORRHEA; ATHLETES; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MENSTRUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAMIN D; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053496659     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2011-1614     Document Type: Article

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