The association of body size, shape and composition with vertebral size in midlife : the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study
Oura, Petteri; Nurkkala, Marjukka; Auvinen, Juha; Niinimäki, Jaakko; Karppinen, Jaro; Junno, Juho-Antti (2019-03-08)
Oura, P., Nurkkala, M., Auvinen, J., Niinimäki, J., Karppinen, J., & Junno, J.-A. (2019). The Association of Body Size, Shape and Composition with Vertebral Size in Midlife – The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40880-4
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Abstract
Small vertebral size increases the risk of osteoporotic vertebral fractures. Obese individuals have larger vertebral size and potentially lower fracture risk than lean individuals, but scarce data exist on the association between vertebral size and anthropometric measures beyond height, weight, and body mass index (BMI). Here, we evaluated several anthropometric measures (height, weight, BMI, waist circumference, hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio [WHR], waist-to-height ratio [WHtR], fat mass [FM], lean body mass [LBM], percentage FM [%FM], percentage LBM [%LBM]) as predictors of vertebral cross-sectional area (CSA). We used a representative sample from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (n = 1087), with anthropometric measurements from the ages of 31 and 46, bioimpedance analysis from the age of 46, and lumbar magnetic resonance imaging from the age of 46 years. In our data, height and LBM correlated most strongly with vertebral CSA among both sexes (0.469 ≤ r ≤ 0.514), while WHR, WHtR, %FM, and %LBM had the weakest correlations with vertebral CSA (|r| ≤ 0.114). We conclude that height and LBM have the highest, yet only moderate correlations with vertebral size. High absolute LBM, rather than FM or abdominal mass accumulation, correlates with large vertebral size and thus potentially also with lower osteoporotic vertebral fracture risk.
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