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SUBMITTER: DiVasta AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5267944 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
DiVasta Amy D AD Feldman Henry A HA O'Donnell Jennifer M JM Long Jin J Leonard Mary B MB Gordon Catherine M CM
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 20161206 2
<h4>Purpose</h4>We examined the relationships between malnutrition, lifestyle factors, and bone health in anorexia nervosa (AN) via dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT).<h4>Methods</h4>Seventy adolescent girls with AN and 132 normal-weighted controls underwent pQCT tibial measures including trabecular volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD), cortical vBMD, and cortical thickness. Participants with AN underwent DXA measures of the axial skel ...[more]