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  • Bone biology and metabolism
  • Endocrinology and metabolic disorders
  • Gerontology and geriatric medicine

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  • Bone remodeling involves resorption and formation, but individual markers do not fully represent bone balance.
  • Assessing bone health requires integrated markers to understand net bone changes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a bone balance index (BBI) by combining collagen type I C-telopeptide (CTX) and procollagen type I propeptide (PINP) markers.
  • To investigate the association between the BBI, CTX, PINP, and changes in bone mineral density (BMD).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a community-based cohort (Study of Women's Health Across the Nation) of 535 women transitioning through menopause.
  • Employed mixed-effects linear regression to analyze the relationship between BBI, CTX, PINP, and annualized percent change in lumbar spine (LS) and femoral neck (FN) BMD.
  • Adjusted for covariates including age, body mass index, race/ethnicity, and menopause transition stage.

Main Results:

  • A more negative BBI was significantly associated with greater annual BMD loss at both the LS and FN.
  • Each standard deviation decrease in BBI correlated with a 0.26% greater decline in LS BMD and a 0.42% greater decline in FN BMD.
  • Elevated levels of CTX or PINP individually also predicted increased bone loss, with CTX showing a stronger association with LS BMD decline.

Conclusions:

  • The BBI effectively estimates bone balance, with a less favorable BBI predicting accelerated BMD loss.
  • Individual markers CTX and PINP reflect overall bone turnover, and higher levels are linked to greater bone loss.
  • These findings highlight the utility of a combined BBI for assessing bone health and predicting BMD changes, particularly in menopausal women.