Abstract
It is well known that sport and exercise play an important role in stimulating site-specific bone mineral density (BMD). However, what is less well understood is how these benefits dissipate throughout the body. Hence, the aim of the present study was to compare the BMD (recorded at nine sites throughout the skeleton) of 106 male athletes (from nine sports) with that of 15 male non-exercising age-matched controls. Given that BMD is known to increase with body mass and peak with age, multivariate and univariate analyses of covariance were performed to compare the BMD of the nine sports groups with controls (at all sites) using body mass and age as covariates. Our results confirmed a greater adjusted BMD in the arms of the upper-body athletes, the right arm of racket players and the legs of runners (compared with controls), supporting the site-specific nature (i.e. specific to the externally loaded site) of the bone remodelling response (all P
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 645-650 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Sports Sciences |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2004 |
Keywords
- dual X-ray absorptiometry
- proportional allometric model
- multivariate analysis of variance and covariance
- bone mineral density