Fewtrell M S
MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London, and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK.
Arch Dis Child. 2003 Sep;88(9):795-8. doi: 10.1136/adc.88.9.795.
The importance of bone growth and mineralisation during childhood for bone health in adult life is increasingly accepted, with both nutritional factors(1) and exercise(2) being recognised as influential for normal skeletal development. The appreciation that infancy and childhood are important periods of life for bone development has led to a need for suitable methods for monitoring bone health, both for research purposes and for clinical monitoring of individuals, and hence to an increasing use of bone densitometry in children. This review discusses the role and potential pitfalls of this technique.
儿童期骨骼生长和矿化对成年后骨骼健康的重要性日益得到认可，营养因素(1)和运动(2)都被认为对正常骨骼发育有影响。认识到婴儿期和儿童期是骨骼发育的重要生命阶段，这就需要有合适的方法来监测骨骼健康，既用于研究目的，也用于对个体的临床监测，因此骨密度测定在儿童中的应用越来越多。本综述讨论了该技术的作用和潜在缺陷。
