[Research on risk factors associated with osteoporosis, on two samples of patients investigated using ultrasonic...

To detect risk factors associated with osteoporosis, on two samples of patients investigated using ultrasonic osteo-densitometry method (UOD).

To found out the relation between anthropometrical data, factors which describe lifestyle of personal pathologic antecedents and T score obtained after UOD, as well as their classification.

The epidemiological and imaging assessments were carried out on two samples of 364 persons from general population (the A sample), and 144 (the B sample), respectively. The registered variables were processed using adequate statistical tests.

In the A sample, over 50% of patients had, after the T score, osteopenia, and 10% suffered from osteoporosis. Concerning the lifestyle, we highlighted: a low lactates consumption (69.7%), coffee (14.3%) and alcohol (0.8%) consumption; sedentary life (48.9%), tobacco smoking (2.2%). The risk quantification by score calculation put in evidence an average of 9.9 +/- 3.3 (for a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 20). In the B sample, the T score varied between 4.77 and 1.67. The assessment of relation between the T score and lifestyle permitted the classification in risk, protection and indifferent factors. Coffee consumption is a weak protection factor (OR = 0.84), and tobacco smoking increases osteoporosis risk 4.13 times. The risk is 3.7 for alcohol consumers, as well as for low lactate consumption (OR=2.87). Sedentary life cannot consider a risk factor, in our research.

Calculation of a individual score that show the weight risk in persons with densitometric alterations represents a practical method in monitoring persons who can be exposed of some handicap after alterations of bone structures.