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CORTICAL and trabecular bone are known to differ in their rates of involution, and bones in certain critical sites show osteoporosis earlier and with more serious consequences than elsewhere in the skeletal system. We considered it important, therefore, to try to ascertain the rate of skeletal atrophy with age and sex and also note whether there were differences in the rate of involution in different skeletal sites.
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BARTLEY, M., ARNOLD, J. Sex Differences in Human Skeletal Involution. Nature 214, 908–909 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214908b0
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