The Association between the Low Muscle Mass and Osteoporosis in Elderly Korean People
Open Access
- 1 January 2014
- journal article
- Published by Korean Academy of Medical Sciences in Journal of Korean Medical Science
- Vol. 29 (7), 995-1000
- https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2014.29.7.995
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to predict osteoporosis risk as decreasing muscle mass and to declare the cut-off value of low muscle mass in an elderly Korean population. This study was based on data from the 2008-2010 Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Surveys (KNHANES). The subjects included 1,308 men and 1,171 women over 65 yr. Bone mineral density (BMD) and appendicular skeletal muscle (ASM) were measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and appendicular skeletal muscle was adjusted by height as a marker of sarcopenia. After confirming the correlation between low muscle mass and BMD, the best cut-off value of muscle mass to estimate osteoporosis was suggested through the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. For both men and women, BMD correlated positively with low muscle mass when ASM/Ht2 was used as a marker for sarcopenia. The ROC curve showed that ASM/Ht2 was the best marker for osteoporosis at a cut-off value of 6.85 kg/m2 for men and 5.96 kg/m2 for women. When these cut-off values were used to determine sarcopenia, the risk of osteoporosis increased 4.14 times in men and 1.88 times in women. In particular, men (OR 2.12) with sarcopenia were more greatly affected than women (OR 1.15), even after adjusting for osteoporosis risk factors. In elderly Korean people, sarcopenia is positively correlated with BMD and there is a strong correlation between sarcopenia and osteoporosis with risk of bone fracture.Keywords
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