Bone Abstracts

Fractures are common in childhood, but multiple fractures during growth could indicate osteoporosis. Children with frequent fractures might benefit from further investigations for osteoporosis and as such, obtaining an accurate fracture history is important. The 2013 International Society for Clinical Densitometry Paediatric Osteoporosis Position Statement defined a clinically significant fracture history as two long bone fractures before age 10 years or three long bo...

Although it has been suggested that overweight and obese children have an increased risk of fracture, recent studies in post-menopausal women have shown that the relationship between obesity and fracture risk varies by fracture site. Thus, obesity is protective against wrist fractures but confers an increased risk of humeral fractures. There are no data to suggest whether this observation is also present in children. We therefore assessed whether adiposity and overweight/obesi...