Associations between nutrition, energy expenditure and energy availability with bone mass acquisition in dance students: a 3-year longitudinal study

• Author(s): Amorim, Tânia ; Freitas, Laura ; Metsios, George S. ; Thayse, Natacha Gomes ; Wyon, Matthew ; Flouris, Andreas D. ; Maia, José ; Marques, Franklim ; Nogueira, Luísa ; Adubeiro, Nuno ; Koutedakis, Yiannis
• Date: 2021
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/18747
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Nutrion; Energy expenditure; Energy availability
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): REPOSITÓRIO P.PORTO

Description

Three years of study showed that female and male vocational dancers displayed lower bone mass compared to controls, at forearm, lumbar spine and femoral neck. Energy intake was found to positively predict bone mass accruals only in female dancers at femoral neck. Vocational dancers can be a risk population to develop osteoporosis.