Birth weight and birth length affect future fracture risk differently in men and women.

ABSTRACT: We wanted to determine if there are any associations between birth factors and adult fracture risk. For women only, shorter birth length was associated with lower relative fracture risk. For women and men, individuals who were long at birth as well as tall in adulthood had a substantially higher relative fracture risk.

Purpose

We aimed to examine associations between birth anthropometry and adult fracture risk and to investigate if developmental mismatch is associated with fracture risk.

Methods

We included 4635 participants (476 women and 4159 men; born 1921-1950) with hospital and national registry-based data on birth anthropometry and adult fractures (≥ 50 years). We tested associations by Cox proportional hazards regressions and present hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confide

SUBMITTER: Moberg L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11427515 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature