Associations between body mass index across adult life and hip shapes at age 60 to 64: Evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the associations of body mass index (BMI) across adulthood with hip shapes at age 60-64years.

Methods

Up to 1633 men and women from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development with repeat measures of BMI across adulthood and posterior-anterior dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry bone mineral density images of the proximal femur recorded at age 60-64 were included in analyses. Statistical shape modelling was applied to quantify independent variations in hip mode (HM), of which the first 6 were examined in relation to: i) BMI at each age of assessment; ii) BMI gain during different phases of adulthood; iii) age first overweight.

Results

Higher BMI at all ages (i.e. 15 to 60-64) and greater gains in BMI were associated with higher HM2 scores in bo

SUBMITTER: Muthuri SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5658512 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature