Is bone loss the reversal of bone accrua
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Qin Wang; Leiting Xu; Qingju Wang; Decai Chen; Haoming Tian; Chunyan Lu; Shumei
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Article
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2011
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American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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English
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## Abstract Bone adapts to mechanical loads applied on it. During aging, loads decrease to a greater extent at those skeletal sites where loads increase most in earlier life. Thus, the loss of bone may occur preferentially at sites where most bone has been deposited previously; ie, bone loss could