Relationship between body composition an
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Sundeep Khosla; Elizabeth J. Atkinson; B. Lawrence Riggs; L. Joseph Melton III
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Article
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2009
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American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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English
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## Abstract Increasing body weight is associated both with higher bone mass and with lower rates of bone loss. Whether the effects of body weight are mediated by lean body mass (LBM) or fat body mass (FBM) is, however, uncertain because different studies have used different measures of bone mass an