Incidence of Childhood Distal Forearm Fractures Over 30 Years: A Population-Based Study

CONTEXT The incidence of distal forearm fractures in children peaks around the time of the pubertal growth spurt, possibly because physical activity increases at the time of a transient deficit in cortical bone mass due to the increased calcium demand during maximal skeletal growth. Changes in physi...

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2003-09, Vol.290 (11), p.1479-1485
Hauptverfasser: Khosla, Sundeep, Melton III, L. Joseph, Dekutoski, Mark B, Achenbach, Sara J, Oberg, Ann L, Riggs, B. Lawrence
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