Bone Mineral Density, as measured by DXA ... and all input ages are rounded off to the nearest whole number. Therefore, even though the graph will plot an age of 10.5, for example, an age of 11 would ...

A team of biomedical engineers at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science working with a team of bio-scientist colleagues ...

Bone mineral density is a measure of bone strength quantified by the amount of minerals in bone tissue. It peaks during young adulthood and slowly declines over the rest of the life cycle.