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Women whose bone development is interrupted in adolescence by the so-called ‘female athlete triad’ of disordered eating, delayed menstruation and osteoporosis can still catch up on bone growth well into their twenties.
That’s the encouraging implication of a single case history presented by researchers from Stanford University in California. They report on the case of an elite distance runner referred to the University’s sports medicine clinic at age 22 with primary amenorrhea (ie her periods had never started), low body weight (48.6kg) and low bone mineral density (BMD) in the spine and hip (74 and 80% of normal values respectively).
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 | Author: | whatsnew (whatsnew's profile, whatsnew's blog) |
 | Posted On: | Fri, 2006-11-24 13:28 |
 | Tags: | Research Findings, Sports and Sports Medicine and Treatment |
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