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Percent fat mass is inversely associated with bone mass and hip geometry in rural Chinese adolescents

  1. Xiumei Hong1,3,
  2. Lester M Arguelles1,
  3. Xin Liu1,
  4. Hui-Ju Tsai1,7,
  5. Yi-Hsiang Hsu4,5,
  6. Binyan Wang1,
  7. Shanchun Zhang1,
  8. Zhiping Li3,
  9. Gengfu Tang3,
  10. Xue Liu3,
  11. Jianhua Yang1,
  12. Xiping Xu2,
  13. Craig Langman6,
  14. Xiaobin Wang1,*

Article first published online: 29 JAN 2010

DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.40

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Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volume 25, Issue 7, pages 1544–1554, July 2010

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Hong, X., Arguelles, L. M., Liu, X., Tsai, H.-J., Hsu, Y.-H., Wang, B., Zhang, S., Li, Z., Tang, G., Liu, X., Yang, J., Xu, X., Langman, C. and Wang, X. (2010), Percent fat mass is inversely associated with bone mass and hip geometry in rural Chinese adolescents. J Bone Miner Res, 25: 1544–1554. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.40

Author Information

  1. 1

    Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Children's Memorial Hospital and Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, IL, USA

  2. 2

    Center for Population Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA

  3. 3

    Institute for Biomedicine, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People's Republic of China

  4. 4

    Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

  5. 5

    Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

  6. 6

    Division of Kidney Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

  7. 7

    Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

*The Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children's Memorial Research Center, 2300 Children's Plaza, Box 157, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 30 JUN 2010
  2. Article first published online: 29 JAN 2010
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 12 JAN 2010
  4. Manuscript Revised: 9 DEC 2009
  5. Manuscript Received: 21 JUL 2009

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