摘要：Background: The prevalence of osteoporosis with related fragility fractures has increased during the lastdecades. As physical activity influences the skeleton in a beneficial way, exercise may hypothetically be used asa prophylactic tool against osteoporosis.Objective: This review evaluates if exercise-induced skeletal benefits achieved during growth remain in a longtermperspective.Design: Publications within the field were searched through Medline (PubMed) using the search words:exercise, physical activity, bone mass, bone mineral content (BMC), bone mineral density (BMD) and skeletalstructure. We based our inferences on publications with the highest level of evidence, particularly randomisedcontrolled trials RCT.Results: Benefits in BMD achieved by exercise during growth seem to be eroded at retirement, but benefits inskeletal structure may possibly be retained in a longer perspective. Recreational exercise seems to at leastpartially maintain exercise-induced skeletal benefits achieved during growth.Conclusions: Exercise during growth may be followed by long-term beneficial skeletal effects, which couldpossibly reduce the incidence of fractures. Exercise during adulthood seems to partly preserve these benefitsand reduce the age-related bone loss.
关键词：bone mass;bone mineral content;BMC;bone mineral density;BMD;exercise;physical activity;skeletal architecture
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