Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Higher body weight is associated with greater bone mineral density (BMD). Lean mass (LM) is positively related with bone parameters in adolescence. However, a number of controversial studies have suggested that fat mass (FM) has beneficial effect or has detrimental effect on BMD in adolescence. These contradictory results of FM on bone parameters might be developed by the non-linear relationship in the adolescent population.Objective: We eval...