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Association between upper leg length and metabolic syndrome among US elderly participants—results from the NHANES (2009–2010)

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between upper leg length (ULL) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in older adults. METHODS: Data was collected from National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES, 2009–2010). 786 individuals (385 males and 401 females) who were 60 years of age or older...

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Autores principales: Pryzbek, Mike, Liu, Jian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Science Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4753013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26918014
http://dx.doi.org/10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2016.01.017
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description OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between upper leg length (ULL) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in older adults. METHODS: Data was collected from National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES, 2009–2010). 786 individuals (385 males and 401 females) who were 60 years of age or older were included in this analysis. MetS was defined as having at least three of following conditions, i.e., central obesity, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension based on National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines. ULL was grouped into gender-specific tertiles. RESULTS: 328 (41.7%) of participants were categorized as having MetS (38.7% in men and 49.1% in women, P = 0.002). Compared to individuals in the 1(st) tertile (T1) of ULL, those in the 3(rd) tertile (T3) had lower levels of triglycerides (120.8 vs. 153.1 mg/dL, P = 0.045), waist circumference (100.7 vs. 104.2 cm, P = 0.049), and systolic blood pressure (126.7 vs. 131.4 mmHg, P = 0.005), but higher levels of high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (58.1 vs. 52.4 mg/dL, P = 0.024). The odds ratios (95% CI) of MetS from multivariate logistic regression were 0.57 (0.32–1.03) for individuals in the T2 of ULL and 0.39 (0.24–0.64) for individuals in the T3 of ULL, respectively (P-value for the trend 0.022). CONCLUSIONS: ULL was negatively associated with MetS in older adults. Further research is needed to identify potential mechanisms.
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spelling pubmed-47530132016-02-25 Association between upper leg length and metabolic syndrome among US elderly participants—results from the NHANES (2009–2010) Pryzbek, Mike Liu, Jian J Geriatr Cardiol Research Article OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between upper leg length (ULL) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in older adults. METHODS: Data was collected from National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES, 2009–2010). 786 individuals (385 males and 401 females) who were 60 years of age or older were included in this analysis. MetS was defined as having at least three of following conditions, i.e., central obesity, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension based on National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines. ULL was grouped into gender-specific tertiles. RESULTS: 328 (41.7%) of participants were categorized as having MetS (38.7% in men and 49.1% in women, P = 0.002). Compared to individuals in the 1(st) tertile (T1) of ULL, those in the 3(rd) tertile (T3) had lower levels of triglycerides (120.8 vs. 153.1 mg/dL, P = 0.045), waist circumference (100.7 vs. 104.2 cm, P = 0.049), and systolic blood pressure (126.7 vs. 131.4 mmHg, P = 0.005), but higher levels of high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (58.1 vs. 52.4 mg/dL, P = 0.024). The odds ratios (95% CI) of MetS from multivariate logistic regression were 0.57 (0.32–1.03) for individuals in the T2 of ULL and 0.39 (0.24–0.64) for individuals in the T3 of ULL, respectively (P-value for the trend 0.022). CONCLUSIONS: ULL was negatively associated with MetS in older adults. Further research is needed to identify potential mechanisms. Science Press 2016-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4753013/ /pubmed/26918014 http://dx.doi.org/10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2016.01.017 Text en Institute of Geriatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which allows readers to alter, transform, or build upon the article and then distribute the resulting work under the same or similar license to this one. The work must be attributed back to the original author and commercial use is not permitted without specific permission.
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Association between upper leg length and metabolic syndrome among US elderly participants—results from the NHANES (2009–2010)
title Association between upper leg length and metabolic syndrome among US elderly participants—results from the NHANES (2009–2010)
title_full Association between upper leg length and metabolic syndrome among US elderly participants—results from the NHANES (2009–2010)
title_fullStr Association between upper leg length and metabolic syndrome among US elderly participants—results from the NHANES (2009–2010)
title_full_unstemmed Association between upper leg length and metabolic syndrome among US elderly participants—results from the NHANES (2009–2010)
title_short Association between upper leg length and metabolic syndrome among US elderly participants—results from the NHANES (2009–2010)
title_sort association between upper leg length and metabolic syndrome among us elderly participants—results from the nhanes (2009–2010)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4753013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26918014
http://dx.doi.org/10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2016.01.017
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