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Healthy postmenopausal women - physical activity and forearm bone mineral density
— the Nord-Trondelag Health Survey | | Author(s) | Liv Berit Augestad, Berit Schei, Siri Forsmo |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 18, no 1, 2006 |
| Pages | pp 21-40 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Good Health ; Menopause ; Keeping fit ; Musculoskeletal systems ; Osteoporosis ; Longitudinal surveys ; Norway. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to analyse the association between physical activity (PA) and forearm bone mineral density (BMD) in healthy postmenopausal women. During 1984-1986, a population-based health survey (HUNT-1) was conducted in Nord-Trondelag county, Norway. The second follow-up survey (HUNT-2) was conducted during 1995-1997. The subjects consist of all healthy postmenopausal women (n=2924). Higher intensity of recreational PA in HUNT-1 was associated with higher BMD ultradistally. The summary score of duration, frequency and intensity of recreational PA in HUNT-1 was associated with lower risk of being below the 20th percentile ultradistally. The trends for mean distal and ultradistal BMD and percent low BMD lacked statistical significance when the PA score combining the recreational and occupational PA in HUNT-1 and HUNT-2 was used. Higher intensity of prior recreational PA (HUNT-1) was associated with a protective effect on BMD measured in the forearm (HUNT-2). (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060914207 A |
| Classmark | BD: CD: CC:BD: CE: BK6: CLO: 3J: 76N |
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