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A Practical Approach to Adolescent Bone Health Optimizing Bone Mass Accrual in Healthy Adolescents

A Practical Approach to Adolescent Bone Health : Optimizing Bone Mass Accrual in Healthy Adolescents [Adolescence provides a uniquely important period of opportunity to improve skeletal health across the lifespan, potentially even reducing the lifetime risk of osteoporosis. Because inherited factors account for as much as 80% of predicted peak bone mass, the relatively few factors amenable to modification become essential to understand for those clinicians who monitor the growth and development of children and adolescents. The modifiable factors include such lifestyle choices as dietary intake, physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight for height, contraceptive choice, and use of tobacco and alcohol. In addition to ensuring normal pubertal development, primary care providers can help guide patients to healthy choices for the bone that are aligned perfectly with other lifelong benefits.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Practical Approach to Adolescent Bone Health Optimizing Bone Mass Accrual in Healthy Adolescents

Editors: Pitts, Sarah; Gordon, Catherine M.
Loud, Keith J.
Springer Journals — Feb 10, 2018
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-72879-7
Pages
1 –9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-72880-3_1
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Abstract

[Adolescence provides a uniquely important period of opportunity to improve skeletal health across the lifespan, potentially even reducing the lifetime risk of osteoporosis. Because inherited factors account for as much as 80% of predicted peak bone mass, the relatively few factors amenable to modification become essential to understand for those clinicians who monitor the growth and development of children and adolescents. The modifiable factors include such lifestyle choices as dietary intake, physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight for height, contraceptive choice, and use of tobacco and alcohol. In addition to ensuring normal pubertal development, primary care providers can help guide patients to healthy choices for the bone that are aligned perfectly with other lifelong benefits.]

Published: Feb 10, 2018

Keywords: Adolescence; Puberty; Bone mass accrual; Areal bone mineral density (aBMD); Peak bone mass (PBM)

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