Bone mineral density reference standards for Chinese children aged 3-18: cross-sectional results of the 2013-2015 China Child and Adolescent Cardiovascular Health (CCACH) Study
Conclusions
This is the first study to present a sex-specific reference dataset for Chinese children aged 3–18 years. The data can help clinicians improve interpretation, assessment and monitoring of densitometry results.
Source: BMJ Open - Category: General Medicine Authors: Liu, J., Wang, L., Sun, J., Liu, G., Yan, W., Xi, B., Xiong, F., Ding, W., Huang, G., Heymsfield, S., Mi, J. Tags: Open access, Epidemiology Research Source Type: research
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