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Opportunistic measurement of sagittal abdominal diameter with bone densitometry predicts death and cardiovascular events.

William D Leslie, Fatima Zarzour, Lisa M Lix, Neil Binkley, Joshua R Lewis, John T Schousboe

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Article in JBMR plus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Automated abdominal aortic calcification and trabecular bone score independently predict incident fracture during routine osteoporosis screening.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2026
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  2. Association between trabecular bone score and cardiovascular outcomes: a population-level historical cohort study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026
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  3. Proton pump inhibitor exposure, trabecular bone score, and BMD: a registry-based cohort study.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

William D LeslieUniversity of Manitoba, Rady College of Medicine, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W2, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1056-1691
Fatima ZarzourUniversity of Manitoba, Rady College of Medicine, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W2, Canada.
Lisa M LixUniversity of Manitoba, Rady College of Medicine, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W2, Canada.
Neil BinkleyUniversity of Wisconsin, Department of Medicine, Madison, WI 53705, United States.
Joshua R LewisEdith Cowan University, Nutrition & Health Innovation Research Institute, Perth, Australia.
John T SchousboePark Nicollet Clinic and HealthPartners Institute, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN 55416, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Supine sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD), also known as abdominal height, has been proposed as a simple measure for assessing abdominal adiposity. We aimed to determine whether SAD from DXA performed for osteoporosis assessment predicts major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) using the population-based DXA registry for the Province of Manitoba, Canada. The study population comprised 72 974 individuals aged 40 yr and older with baseline DXA assessment between February 1999 and March 2018. Incident MACE (composite of all-cause mortality, acute myocardial infarction [MI], non-hemorrhagic stroke) was ascertained from linked healthcare databases. During mean 8.4 yr follow-up (611 862 person-years), 14 457 (18.8%) individuals experienced incident MACE. Risk stratification was greatest with SAD/weight ratio, with area under the curve (AUC) for MACE and its components ranging from 0.582 for acute MI to 0.620 for death (all

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bone–fat interactionsDXAepidemiologygeneral population studieshealth services research

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PMID40124404
PMCPMC11929375

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