Muscle-bone relationships in the lower leg of healthy pre-pubertal females and males
Muscle-bone relationships in healthy pre-pubertal children were investigated using four muscle measures as predictors of tibial strengt...
Vitamin D status and muscle function in post-menarchal adolescent girls
Context: There has been a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency among infants, toddlers and adolescents in the United Kingdom. Myopathy is...
Longitudinal Assessment of Bone Density and Structure in an Incident Cohort of Children With Crohn’s Disease
BACKGROUND & AIMS: The impact of childhood Crohn's disease (CD) and its therapies on volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD), bone s...
Divergent Effects of Glucocorticoids on Cortical and Trabecular Compartment Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome
Abstract Glucocorticoid (GC) effects on skeletal development have not been established. The objective of this peripheral quantitative c...
Bone structure and volumetric BMD in overweight children: a longitudinal study
The effect of excess body fat on bone strength accrual is not well understood. Therefore, we assessed bone measures in healthy weight (...
Anterior-posterior bending strength at the tibial shaft increases with physical activity in boys: evidence for non-uniform geometric adaptation
We investigated bone structural adaptations to a 16-month school-based physical activity intervention in 202 young boys using a novel a...
Veränderungen der Knochenstruktur der Tibia, quantifiziert mit der pQCT, bei kleinwüchsigen Kindern und Jugendlichen unter Therapie mit Wachstumshormon
Als Prädiktoren für das Wachstum unter WH-Therapie werden auxiologische und laborchemische Parameter eingesetzt. Diese prospektive Stud...
Skeletal effects of estrogen and mechanical loading are structurally distinct
Estrogen has been suggested to influence skeletal homeostasis by both increasing the sensitivity of the feedback control system for ske...
The effect of menarcheal age on anthropometric, limb length, and bone measures in Hutterite and non-Hutterite women
The age women reach menarche may affect bone length and mass. Some studies show an earlier menarcheal age (MA) results in a shorter sta...
Mechanographic characteristics of adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease
The present study comprised 29 adolescents and young adults (15 females, 14 males; aged 14.1-23.9 years) with congenital heart disease ...