Bone Health A Reflection of the Social Mosaic /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Brennan-Olsen, Sharon L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Riancho, Jose A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Endocrinology .; Endocrinology.

This multidisciplinary book addresses three lines of evidence (medieval, contemporary, and epigenetic) regarding the effect of human socio-economic status on bone health. It provides an overview of the extent to which human social background affects adult bone quality and quantity, and makes recomme...

Table of Contents:

• Section I: Medieval evidence
• Social status and bone health in the medieval times
• Adult bone density and strength across medieval social strata
• Physiological health disruptions inferred from dental growth data in medieval societies
• Section II: Contemporary evidence
• Bone mineral density across social groups
• Contemporary society and fracture
• Social gradient of preventive testing and treatment adherence in osteoporosis
• Section III: Epigenetic evidence
• Epigenetics at the crossroad between genetic and environmental determinants of disease
• The influence of maternal and social factors during intrauterine life
• Postnatal social factors, the epigenome and the skeleton
• Conclusions and future directions.