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How Does Obesity Influence the Risk of Vertebral Fracture? Findings From the UK Biobank Participants.
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- Association between obesity and the prevalence of fractures: a population-based cross-sectional study in China.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025Article
- Bone mineral density T-scores comparison between obese and non-obese individuals included in a Fracture Liaison Service following a recent fragility fracture.Archives of osteoporosis · 2024Article
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- Utilization of Vertebroplasty/Kyphoplasty in the Management of Compression Fractures: National Trends and Predictors of Vertebroplasty/Kyphoplasty.Neurospine · 2023Article
- Gender-specific associations between abdominal adipose mass and bone mineral density in the middle-aged US population.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- Relationships between Obesity and Incidence of Fractures in a Middle-Aged Population: A Study from the CARTaGENE Cohort.JBMR plus · 2023Article
- General and abdominal obesity operate differently as influencing factors of fracture risk in old adults.iScience · 2022Article
- Cross-sectional associations between adipose tissue depots and areal bone mineral density in the UK Biobank imaging study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2022Article
- Bone Microarchitecture in Obese Postmenopausal Chinese Women: The Chinese Vertebral Osteoporosis Study (ChiVOS).Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Association between body mass index and fragility fracture in postmenopausal women: a cross-sectional study using Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2008-2009 (KNHANES IV).BMC women's health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Obesity and osteoporotic-related fractures are two common public health problems, although it is unclear how obesity affects the risk of vertebral fractures. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between different measures of obesity and the risk of vertebral fracture, and to establish the various clinical factors that can predict such risk. We analyzed data obtained from 502,543 participants in the UK Biobank (229,138 men and 273,405 women), aged 40 to 69 years. Imaging information was available in a subset of this cohort (5189 participants: 2473 men and 2716 women). We further examined how BMD and geometry of the vertebrae were related to body fat measures. It was shown that a larger waist circumference (WC), but not BMI, was associated with an increase in fracture risk in men, but in women, neither BMI nor WC affected the risk. Trunk fat mass, visceral adipose tissue (VAT) mass, and limb fat mass were negatively associated with vertebral body BMD and geometry in men and women. BMD and geometry are related to vertebral strength, but may not be directly related to the risk of fractures, which is also influenced by other factors. The binary logistic regression equation established in this study may be useful to clinicians for the prediction of vertebral fracture risks, and may provide further information to supplement the fracture risk assessment tool, which assesses general fracture risks. © 2020 The Authors.
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