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Age-Related and Gender-Related Differences between Human Vertebral and Iliac Crest Bone – A Histomorphometric Study on the Population of the Mediterranean Coast of Croatia
Zdenko Ostojić
Olga Cvijanović
Dragica Bobinac
Sanja Zoričić
Ivan Šoša
Ivana Marić
Sažetak
In this study, osseous tissue was examined in normal adult population that has inhabited areas by the Croatian Adriatic
Sea. The most of such studies have shown that women are prone to lose bone connectedness, while men are predisposed to be a stronger constitution and they start with greater bone mass, though. Bone samples from two different anatomic sites were analyzed. The crista iliaca and the lumbar vertebra represent functionally different organs too. We wanted to consider weather the same age- and gender-related changes affect these two organs due to normal aging. Static histomorphometry was used to quantify involution changes in the trabecular bone. Results showed that involution process more severely affects women than men. Age-related structural changes were more prominent in lumbar vertebra than in iliac crest bone. Severe structural changes in lumbar vertebra could subsequently lead to a dysfunctional and deformed vertebral column. Therefore, iliac crest bone biopsies could hardly explain involution process that affects lumbar spine.
Ključne riječi
bone histomorphometry; vertebral body; iliac crest; aging; gender
Hrčak ID:
7504
URI
Datum izdavanja:
16.3.2006.
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