Anthropometric models of bone mineral content and areal bone mineral density based on the bone mineral density in childhood study.

ABSTRACT:

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New models describing anthropometrically adjusted normal values of bone mineral density and content in children have been created for the various measurement sites. The inclusion of multiple explanatory variables in the models provides the opportunity to calculate Z-scores that are adjusted with respect to the relevant anthropometric parameters.

Introduction

Previous descriptions of children's bone mineral measurements by age have focused on segmenting diverse populations by race and sex without adjusting for anthropometric variables or have included the effects of a single anthropometric variable.

Methods

We applied multivariate semi-metric smoothing to the various pediatric bone-measurement sites using data from the Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study

SUBMITTER: Short DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4768717 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature