Endocrine Abstracts

Background: An increasing amount of biomedical data is becoming available, and methods are needed to tackle these “big data”.Methods: We performed a systematic evaluation of 138 environmental and behavioral factors in relation to bone mineral density (BMD) in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans were available for total body, head, pelvis and lumbar spine for 27,259 particip...