Our results suggest site-specific weakness and high body weight contribute to fracture risk in children and adolescents who fracture their forearms repeatedly. These findings are consonant with work showing adult Colles fractures increase as ultradistal radius BMD falls and with evidence that overweight children and adolescents are fracture prone.
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