ea0029p160 | Bone & Osteoporosis | ICEECE2012
Vandewalle S.
, Roggen I.
, Van Helvoirt M.
, Debode P.
, Taes Y.
, Kaufman J.
, De Schepper J.
Introduction: Male gender, adolescence and obesity are known risk factors for upper limb fractures, although the mechanism by which obesity confers the increased fracture risk is unknown. In addition, most studies investigating the influence of body fat mass on bone in adolescents have been performed in school based populations using the DXA technique, which does not take into account the material and geometric bone properties.Methods: We investigated vo...