Bone Abstracts

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 evaluate musculoskeletal trajectories in children with newly diagnosed Crohn’s disease (CD), and to determine whether children treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha antibody (anti-TNF, TREATED vs NAÏVE) had persistent deficits at two years.Methods: This was a single-centre prospective, observational inception cohort study. Children with CD underwent assessments within 6.5±9.5 days from diagnosis and annually for two...