Scaling of adult human bone and skeletal muscle mass to height in the US population.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The scaling of structural components to body size is well studied in mammals, although comparable human observations in a large and diverse sample are lacking. The current study aimed to fill this gap by examining the scaling relationships between total body (TB) and regional bone and skeletal muscle (SM) mass with body size, as defined by stature, in a nationally representative sample of the US population.

Methods

Subjects were 17,126 non-Hispanic (NH) white, NH black, and Mexican American men and women, aged ≥18 years, evaluated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey who had TB and regional bone mineral (BMin) and lean soft tissue (LST) mass measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. BMin and appendicular LST served as surrogate bone and SM m

SUBMITTER: Heymsfield SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6634976 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature