title: Peak trabecular vertebral density: a comparison of adolescent and adult females.
abstract: To determine when spinal bone density reaches its peak, the trabecular vertebral density was assessed, via quantitative computed tomography, among females from two age groups: (1) adolescents (aged 14-19 years; N = 24); and (2) young adults (aged 25-35 years; n =24). The adolescent girls had a higher mean trabecular vertebral density (P less than 0.01), suggesting that spinal density reaches its peak around the time of cessation of longitudinal growth and epiphyseal closure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Ca 90054-0700.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gilsanz
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Gibbens
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carlson
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Boechat
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Cann
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Schulz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D009929:Organ Size; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed