Toronto, May 9 (Ians): Women with obesity and overweight, especially women with high waist circumference, are more susceptible to fractures than those who have normal body weight, find research.However, in men, lack of weight, not overweight, is associated with a greater risk of fractures, according to research presented at the European Congress about Obesity (ECO) in the Netherlands. Obesity has long been considered to help protect against fractures. This is because mechanical loading in the bone, which increases with body weight, helps increase the density of bone minerals, the important determinant of bone strength.
However, recent research has suggested that the relationship between obesity and fracture risk varies depending on the sex, the frame site that is studied and the definition of obesity used (BMI Body Mass Index vs.To find out more, a team from the Chu De Quebec research center in Canada analyzed data from nearly 20,000 people aged 40-70 years from Quebec, Canada. BMI and waist circumference of participants (abdominal obesity size) are measured.
For an average follow-up of 5.8 years, 497 women and 323 men suffered broken bones.In women, larger waist circumference linearly associated with an increased risk of fractures. For every 5cm (two -inch) increase in the waist circumference, the risk of fracture in any location is 3 percent higher and the risk of distal lower limb fracture (the foot below the knee) is 7 percent higher.
The relationship between the waist circumference and the ankle fracture is very strong.”The waist circumference is stronger associated with fractures in women than BMI. This may be due to visceral fat, fat that is very active metabolically and stored deep in the stomach, wrapped around organs, removing compounds that affect bone strength,” said Anne-Frederique Turcotte, Unit Endocrinology and nephrology at the center.
Furthermore, women with larger BMI are associated with the high risk of distal lower limb fractures. Compared to women with BMI 25 kg/m2, an increase in the risk of rising linear from 5 percent in those who have BMI 27.5 kg/MA, to 40 percent in those who have BMI 40 kg/MA.While the risk of obesity with a higher risk of fractures in women is still unknown, researchers say that most of the broken bones are the result of falling and falling more common in people with obesity. The ankles, unlike hip and thigh bones, are not protected by soft tissue, which can make it more vulnerable to rupture during fall.
“We also know that people with obesity take longer to stabilize their bodies, when they tripped, for example. This is very spoken when body weight is concentrated in the front of the body, indicating that individuals with body fat distribution in the abdominal area may be at higher risk of falling , “Turcotte said.
The study also found that men with BMI under 17.5 kg/m2 twice as much as possible have an upper limb fracture as a man with a BMI 25 kg/m2.The researchers noted a large number of fractures in men needed to determine whether this was a correct result or whether the pattern for men followed it for women.
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