As you can see in the image below, peak bone mass in men are higher than in women.
Whilst children have more or less the same mass of skeletal calcium, with age, decreasing bone mass is more accentuated in women than in men. Indeed, at the age of 50-60, it decreases more rapidly than in men.
Bone density peaks occur at about 30 years of age.
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| Image taken from CFCF |
Taking into account the race, while osteoporosis occurs in people from all ethnic groups, European or Asian ancestry predisposes for osteoporosis (Melton, 2003).
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Rice university, 2013. Anatomy & Physiology. Recovered on 4th of May 2015 from http://cnx.org/content/col11496/1.6/
Melton LJ, 2003. Epidemiology worldwide. Endocrinol. Metab. Clin. North Am. 32 (1): 1–13
Melton LJ, 2003. Epidemiology worldwide. Endocrinol. Metab. Clin. North Am. 32 (1): 1–13
Nice graph! I'm a junior female football coach and it serves myself to better understand the importance of a sporty infancy plenty of repeated rebounds. The higher the BMD we get, the more it'll last in the safety values.
ReplyDeleteThat's correct, George!
DeleteTalking about rebounds... check our last scientific post (http://healthyathleticwomen.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/a-simple-exercise-to-prevent.html) about osteoporosis. You'll find, literally, an exercise based itself in rebounds ;)
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