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Association Between Geographic Elevation, Bone Status, and Exercise Habits: The Shimane CoHRE Study

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the association between the residential environment and health. The association between residential environment (i.e., geographic elevation) and bone status is unknown. Furthermore, these associations could differ by exercise habits due to the chro...

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Autores principales: Takeda, Miwako, Hamano, Tsuyoshi, Kohno, Kunie, Yano, Shozo, Shiwaku, Kuninori, Nabika, Toru
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Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26133130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120707392
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author Takeda, Miwako
Hamano, Tsuyoshi
Kohno, Kunie
Yano, Shozo
Shiwaku, Kuninori
Nabika, Toru
author_facet Takeda, Miwako
Hamano, Tsuyoshi
Kohno, Kunie
Yano, Shozo
Shiwaku, Kuninori
Nabika, Toru
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description In recent years, there has been growing interest in the association between the residential environment and health. The association between residential environment (i.e., geographic elevation) and bone status is unknown. Furthermore, these associations could differ by exercise habits due to the chronically greater daily activity caused by steep slopes in mountainous areas. The aim of this study was to test whether the association between bone status of elderly people measured using quantitative ultrasound (QUS) and elevation varied according to the exercise habits in a mountainous area population. Data were collected from a cross-sectional study conducted during 2012–2013. QUS value was expressed as a proportion of the young adult mean (%YAM), with higher scores donating better bone status. After excluding subjects with missing data, we analyzed the data for 321 men and 500 women. Our results indicate that %YAM was not associated with elevation among men, or among women with exercise habits. However, elevation was associated with %YAM among women without exercise habits. Our results highlight the importance of considering residential environment and exercise habits when establishing promotion strategies to maintain bone status of the elderly people who live in rural mountainous areas.
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spelling pubmed-45156632015-07-28 Association Between Geographic Elevation, Bone Status, and Exercise Habits: The Shimane CoHRE Study Takeda, Miwako Hamano, Tsuyoshi Kohno, Kunie Yano, Shozo Shiwaku, Kuninori Nabika, Toru Int J Environ Res Public Health Communication In recent years, there has been growing interest in the association between the residential environment and health. The association between residential environment (i.e., geographic elevation) and bone status is unknown. Furthermore, these associations could differ by exercise habits due to the chronically greater daily activity caused by steep slopes in mountainous areas. The aim of this study was to test whether the association between bone status of elderly people measured using quantitative ultrasound (QUS) and elevation varied according to the exercise habits in a mountainous area population. Data were collected from a cross-sectional study conducted during 2012–2013. QUS value was expressed as a proportion of the young adult mean (%YAM), with higher scores donating better bone status. After excluding subjects with missing data, we analyzed the data for 321 men and 500 women. Our results indicate that %YAM was not associated with elevation among men, or among women with exercise habits. However, elevation was associated with %YAM among women without exercise habits. Our results highlight the importance of considering residential environment and exercise habits when establishing promotion strategies to maintain bone status of the elderly people who live in rural mountainous areas. MDPI 2015-06-30 2015-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4515663/ /pubmed/26133130 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120707392 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Association Between Geographic Elevation, Bone Status, and Exercise Habits: The Shimane CoHRE Study
title Association Between Geographic Elevation, Bone Status, and Exercise Habits: The Shimane CoHRE Study
title_full Association Between Geographic Elevation, Bone Status, and Exercise Habits: The Shimane CoHRE Study
title_fullStr Association Between Geographic Elevation, Bone Status, and Exercise Habits: The Shimane CoHRE Study
title_full_unstemmed Association Between Geographic Elevation, Bone Status, and Exercise Habits: The Shimane CoHRE Study
title_short Association Between Geographic Elevation, Bone Status, and Exercise Habits: The Shimane CoHRE Study
title_sort association between geographic elevation, bone status, and exercise habits: the shimane cohre study
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26133130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120707392
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