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The peak bone mass concept: is it still relevant?

✍ Scribed by Eckhard Schönau

Publisher
Springer
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
239 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0931-041X

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## Abstract We investigate the relevance of the genetic determination of bone mineral density (BMD) variation to that of differential risk to osteoporotic fractures (OF). The high heritability (__h^2^__) of BMD and the significant phenotypic correlations between high BMD and low risk to OF are well