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Body Composition in Japanese Girls with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Masayuki Miyagi1, Wataru Saito1, Takayuki Imura1
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan.
Introduction:
There are few reports on body composition, particularly muscle mass, in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). The purpose of this study was to measure body composition including muscle mass and estimated bone mass of patients with AIS using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and to clarify the relationship between the degree of scoliosis and body composition.
Methods:
The subjects were 210 girls (mean age 14.0 years, range 10-18 years) whose body composition was evaluated using BIA (Tanita MC-780). Body mass index (BMI), percent body fat (%BF), lean muscle mass index (LMI: muscle mass/height^2), and estimated bone mass index (eBoneMI: estimated bone mass/height^2) were determined by age and compared with those of previous reports. We divided 111 subjects whose bone maturation was complete into two groups for comparison of body composition metrics: those with Cobb angle <40° (moderate scoliosis group) and those with Cobb angle ≥40° (severe scoliosis group). The relationships between Cobb angle and each body composition parameter were evaluated.
Results:
Age-adjusted BMI, %BF, and LMI tended to be low at all ages compared with means for the healthy Japanese population as previously reported. BMI, LMI, and eBoneMI were significantly lower in the severe scoliosis group compared with those in the moderate scoliosis group (p<0.05). In addition, all BMI, LMI, and eBoneMI were weakly correlated with Cobb angle (r= -0.20, -0.26, and -0.24).
Conclusions:
On the basis of the results of this study, patients with AIS are thinner, with lower BMI, %BF, and LMI compared with healthy girls of the same age. Furthermore, factors such as lower BMI, lower muscle mass, and lower estimated bone mass were correlated with progressive scoliosis.
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