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Chinese Women in Both the United States and Hong Kong Have Cortical Microstructural Advantages and More Trabecular Plates Compared With White Women.
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- Best Performance Parameters of HR-pQCT to Predict Fragility Fracture: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2021Pooled it
- Reference microarchitectural values measured by HR-pQCT in a Franco-Swiss cohort of young adult women.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2022Article
- Ethnic Differences in Bone Microarchitecture.Current osteoporosis reports · 2020Review
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Abstract
We cross-sectionally compared racial differences in bone quality between Chinese women in the United States (US) and Hong Kong (HK) with white women. A total of 514 women were included. We measured bone geometry, mass, microstructure, and stiffness by high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT), individual trabecula segmentation (ITS), and microfinite element analysis (μFEA). After adjustment for age and body mass index (BMI), premenopausal Chinese women in the US and HK had smaller bone area but greater radial cortical (Ct.) thickness and Ct. and trabecular (Tb.) volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) versus white women but did not differ from each other. At the radius, Tb. number was lower and spacing greater in Chinese women from HK and the US versus white women, whereas Chinese women did not differ from each other. Tb. thickness was highest in Chinese women from HK, intermediate in Chinese-Americans, and lowest in white women. Chinese women had more trabecular plates versus white women, leading to greater age- and BMI-adjusted stiffness for premenopausal Chinese women in HK and the US (both
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