Titre : | Educational level and osteoporosis risk in postmenopausal Chinese women. (2005) |
Auteurs : | Suzanne-C HO ; CHEN (Yu-Ming) : CHN. Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology. School of Public Health. Sun Yat-sen University. Guangzhou. ; WOO (Jean-Lf) : HKG. Department of Medicine and Therapeutics. Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 161, n° 7, 2005) |
Pagination : | 680-690 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Ostéoporose ; Niveau enseignement ; Facteur sociodémographique ; Facteur risque ; Chine ; Asie ; Femme ; Homme ; Ethnie ; Os ; Densité population ; Education ; Système ostéoarticulaire [pathologie] |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xbyi2u. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Many studies have shown that better education is favorable for lowering the risks for a number of chronic diseases, but little information is available on the relation with bone health. The authors examined the association of educational level, classified as levels I-IV, with bone mineral density (BMD) and with the prevalence of osteoporosis among 685 population-based, postmenopausal, Chinese women aged 48-63 years during 1999-2001. They observed a significant dose-response positive relation between educational level and BMDs at the total-body (p=0.011), lumbar spine, and hip sites (p |