ArticleJournal of sport and health science2018
Bone mineral density in lifelong trained male football players compared with young and elderly untrained men.
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- Football training as a non-pharmacological treatment of the global aging population-A topical review.Frontiers in aging · 2023Review
- Effect of physical training on parathyroid hormone and bone turnover marker profile in relation to vitamin D supplementation in soccer players.Biology of sport · 2022Article
- The Faroe Islands COVID-19 Recreational Football Study: Player-to-Player Distance, Body-to-Body Contact, Body-to-Ball Contact and Exercise Intensity during Various Types of Football Training for Both Genders and Various Age Groups.BioMed research international · 2022Article
- Quantitative evaluation of bone marrow fat content and unsaturated fatty index in young male soccer players using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2021Article
- High bone mineral density in lifelong trained female team handball players and young elite football players.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
- Long-Term Patterns of Bone Mineral Density in an Elite Soccer Player.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Long-Term Recreational Football Training and Health in Aging.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Editorial re: Could sport be part ….. by Ring-Dimitriou et al.Journal of sport and health science · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of the present controlled cross-sectional study was to investigate proximal femur and whole-body bone mineral density (BMD), as well as bone turnover profile, in lifelong trained elderly male football players and young elite football players compared with untrained age-matched men.
methodsOne hundred and forty healthy, non-smoking men participated in the study, including lifelong trained football players (FTE,
resultsFTE had 7.3%-12.9% higher (
conclusionBMD of the proximal femur and whole-body BMD are markedly higher in lifelong trained male football players aged 65-80 years and young elite football players aged 18-30 years compared to age-matched untrained men. Elderly football players even show higher BMD in femoral trochanter and leg BMD than untrained young despite an age difference of 47 years.
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