Bone Traits Seem to Develop Also During the Third Decade in Life-Normative Cross-Sectional Data on 1083 Men Aged 18-28 Years
By identifying individuals with low peak bone mass (PBM) at young age, early targeted interventions to reduce future fracture risk could be possible. Peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) is in many ways superior to the gold standard dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), as cortical and trabecular compartments as well as the volumetric density and bone structure can be examined sepa