The relationship between maternal and child bone density in Nigerian children with and without nutritional rickets.
T J BommersbachP R FischerJ M PettiforThomas D ThacherPublished in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2018)
In Nigerian children with and without rickets, forearm aBMD Z-scores were positively associated with maternal aBMD Z-scores. Active rickets in the child marginally modified the relationship at the diaphyseal site only. After treatment, children with rickets had greater metaphyseal aBMD Z-scores than children without rickets.