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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:101.

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Bijur et al¹ report that a significantly higher proportion of female than male cadets in the West Point Class of 1995 suffered stress fractures. Such a phenomenon had been reported about earlier West Point classes^2-3 and about classes in the other US service academies.² Friedl et al⁴ noted that the risk factors for stress fractures in young, US Army women were as follows: current smoking, previous history of amenorrhea, and being underweight. Anderson⁵ found that 73% of women in the 1980 class developed secondary amenorrhea during their first year at the academy. Welch³ noted similar percentages for the classes of 1981, 1990, and 1991. Welch³ also noted that in the 1990 class, the mean number of push-ups achieved by the women was 35, and the mean number of pull-ups was 3. I have no control data, but would suppose that the average young woman in the Western world could not . . . [Full Text of this Article]