Keywords:
Tissue characterisation, Outcomes, Metabolic disorders, Normal variants, Diagnostic procedure, Comparative studies, Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry, Musculoskeletal soft tissue, Extremities
Authors:
F. Ponti1, D. Diano1, S. Guerri1, M. Agostini1, M. Amadori1, G. Sadotti1, U. Albisinni2, G. Battista1, A. Bazzocchi1; 1Bologna/IT, 2Bologna /IT
DOI:
10.1594/essr2016/P-0086
Results
ALMI and the anthropometric features of the studied population are presented in Table 1,
as well as the percentage of patients regularly performing physical activity (and the weekly frequency). Table 2 shows the descriptive statistics for all DXA parameters and indexes (including normalization of data per area) in both men and women (right and left segmental upper limbs – right and left segmental lower limbs – right and left total upper and lower limbs).
No statistically significant difference was recorded between LM of right and left lower and upper limbs,
as well as no statistically significant difference between BMD of both right and left side of upper and lower limbs was documented (p>0.05).
AC and ThC were correlated with FM and LM of both total and segmental upper and lower extremities (0.366-0.814) (Table 3 and 4).
ThC showed the best correlation with LM in males and FM in females (r = 0.674,
r = 0.786,
respectively) (Figure 2).
On the contrary,
AC was better correlated to FM in both males and females (r = 0.617,
r = 0.814,
respectively) (Figure 3).
A regular performance of physical activity as well as the frequency of exercises (calculated as number of hours for week) significantly influenced FM,
LM and BMD of both upper and lower extremities (p=0.02-0.0001).
In a multivariate analysis including FM/LM,
BMC and BMD of both upper and lower limbs,
FM/LM and BMD of lower limbs were retained in the final model.