Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM

Amount

$142,716.00

Award Date

8/11/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Although osteoporosis affects more than 2 million men in the United States today and nearly 12 million more have osteopenia, low bone mass often goes undiagnosed and inadequately treated in males (Wright 2006). The overall goal of the proposed study is t