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Volume 2, Issue 8 , Pages 740-750 , August 2010

Nutritional Factors That Influence Change in Bone Density and Stress Fracture Risk Among Young Female Cross-Country Runners

  • Jeri W. Nieves, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Center, Helen Hayes Hospital, Route 9W, West Haverstraw, NY 10993; Columbia University, New York, NY⁎
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: J.W.N.
    • ,
  • Kathryn Melsop, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA†
    • ,
  • Meredith Curtis, BS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA‡
    • ,
  • Jennifer L. Kelsey, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA∥
    • ,
  • Laura K. Bachrach, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA§
    • ,
  • Gail Greendale, MD

      Affiliations

    • Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    • ,
  • Mary Fran Sowers, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIa
    • ,
  • Kristin L. Sainani, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CAb

Received 18 December 2009 ,Accepted 22 April 2010.

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 This study was funded by a grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, award number DAMD17-98-1-8518. Wyeth-Ayerst provided oral contraceptives for the randomized trial from which these data are derived, but was not involved in the analyses presented in this article.

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