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UT Austin \u00b7 Kinesiology and Health Education<\/p>\n

We study how the skeletal, immune, and reproductive systems work together with the goal of making osteoporosis preventable.<\/p>\n

Join the lab<\/a>
\nSee current projects<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Why our work matters<\/p>\n

Osteoporosis affects more people each year than heart attack, strokes, and breast cancer combined.<\/em><\/h2>\n
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50%<\/div>\n

of women over age 50<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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25%<\/div>\n

of men over age 50<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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>2M<\/div>\n

new osteoporotic fractures each year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sources: IOF Fact Sheet; Hernandez et al. 2003, Osteoporosis International<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The critical window<\/p>\n

Most of your skeleton is built before age 30.<\/h2>\n

Over 90% of bone mass accrues during adolescence. Just a 10% increase in what’s built in this window can halve lifetime fracture risk and delay osteoporosis by a decade.<\/p>\n

We study this critical period alongside bone loss driven by aging of the reproductive and immune systems \u2014 across weeks, across a lifespan, and across generations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Our tools:<\/h2>\n
Micro-computed tomography<\/span>
\nFlow cytometry<\/span>
\nMultiplex immunoassay<\/span>
\nMechanical testing<\/span>
\nFinite-element analysis<\/span>
\nImmunostaining<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UT Austin \u00b7 Kinesiology and Health Education We study how the skeletal, immune, and reproductive systems work together with the goal of making osteoporosis preventable. Join the lab See current projects Why our work matters Osteoporosis affects more people each year than heart attack, strokes, and breast cancer combined. 50% of women over age 50 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/tol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/tol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/tol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/tol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/tol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/tol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/tol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/tol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}