Bone health and dietary, lifestyle and anthropometric factors in urban dwelling South Asians (n 2438): data from the UK Biobank cohort

There is an urgent need for large scale research to identify putative modifiable risk factors associated with low BMD in ethnic minority groups, whereby research to date has been piecemeal. Spearman's or Pearson's partial correlations (as appropriate) were undertaken to assess the associat...

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Published inProceedings of the Nutrition Society Vol. 76; no. OCE4
Main Authors Darling, A.L., Blackbourn, D.J., Ahmadi, K.R., Lanham-New, S.A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2017
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Alcoholic beverages
Anthropometry
Asian people
Body mass index
Body measurements
Calciferol
Calcium
Chi-square test
Deprivation
Diet
Ethnic factors
Family income
Females
Hip
Lifestyles
Males
Minority & ethnic groups
Risk analysis
Risk factors
Smoking
Subgroups
Vegetarianism
Vitamin D
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Summary:There is an urgent need for large scale research to identify putative modifiable risk factors associated with low BMD in ethnic minority groups, whereby research to date has been piecemeal. Spearman's or Pearson's partial correlations (as appropriate) were undertaken to assess the association between heel BMD and the following variables, controlling for subject age: gross household income, waist:hip ratio, BMI, median calcium and vitamin D intakes, days per week walked 10 minutes or more, Townsend Deprivation Index (TDI), number of hours outdoors in summer, and oily fish consumption. Chi square analyses were used to assess the association between heel BMD (categorised as above or below the group median, within sex) and ethnic subgroup, self-related health, smoking status (males only as few females smoked), occupation, vegetarianism (Indians only assessed as other groups had few vegetarians), alcohol intake, vitamin D containing supplement use and education.
ISSN:0029-6651
1475-2719
DOI:10.1017/S0029665117002877