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Silvia Andréa Destefani1, Cilmery Suemi Kurokawa2, Sérgio Augusto Rodrigues3
1Departamento de Nutrição, Universidade Paulista (Unip), Bauru, SP, Brasil.
Objective:
To evaluate whether there is a relationship between diet quality and bone health in a group of elderly Brazilian women.
Methods:
A cross-sectional study was performed with 105 elderly women. Participants were evaluated regarding diet quality (good, needing improvement, and poor) and its relationship with bone mineral density (BMD), bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (BSAP), and C-telopeptide (CTX).
Results:
Fifty eight participants (55.2%) presented a poor-quality diet and 47 (44.8%) required dietary improvements, while no subjects presented a good quality diet. The group requiring dietary improvements had lower CTX [0.35 (0.05;1.09) vs. 0.52 (0.10;1.45); p = 0.03)] and BSAP (38.7 ± 12.9 U/L vs. 46.10 ± 15.2 U/L; p < 0.01) levels than the poor-quality diet group. Groups did not differ in terms of BMD.
Conclusion:
In this group of elderly Brazilian women, there was a relationship between diet quality and bone health, where worse diet quality was associated with higher levels of bone remodelling markers.
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