Bone Abstracts

Objective: Total body less head (TBLH) and spine are the recommended DXA sites for bone health assessment in children and adolescents. However, inter-machine differences will affect use and interpretation of results in clinical care and research applications. We examined BMC and areal-BMD (aBMD) at 4 skeletal sites among healthy children to identify the magnitude of inter-machine differences in Z-scores.Methods: BMDCS evaluated healthy participa...

Objectives: Creation of reference curves for areal bone mineral density (aBMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) with consideration of relevant anthropometric variables.Methods: Analysis of the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) data collected as part of the Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study1, including 2012 boys and girls, 5–22 years old, with a total of 10 525 visits, resulting in aBMD and BMC observations at the lumbar spine, hi...

Objectives: To determine if genetic variants associated with principal component-derived areal bone mineral density (aBMD) loading scores.Methods: Our sample comprised 1,293 children of European ancestry enrolled in the longitudinal Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study (52% female). The participants completed up to 7 annual study visits. From dual energy X-ray absorptiometry scans, sex and age-specific aBMD Z-scores were calculated for total hip, femo...

Objective: The forearm is a common fracture site during childhood, but DXA pediatric reference data for areal bone mineral density (aBMD) at the ultradistal (UD) radius are lacking. The objective of this study was to first, develop age-, sex-, and ancestry-specific reference data for UD radius aBMD; second, assess the relationship between UD radius aBMD and a) other DXA aBMD measures and b) radius bone volumetric density and geometry by pQCT; and third, examine the tracking of...

Objective: With recent genome wide association studies (GWAS), ~70 loci have been robustly and reproducibly associated with adult bone density and/or osteoporosis. However, to date no systematic effort has investigated which of these loci operate early in life. We investigated whether these single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with childhood areal bone mineral density (aBMD). In addition we determined if any of the associations were age dependent.<p class=...