ハマノ ツヨシ   HAMANO TSUYOSHI
  濱野 強
   所属   京都産業大学  現代社会学部 健康スポーツ社会学科
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2015/07
形態種別 研究論文
査読 査読あり
標題 Association Between Geographic Elevation, Bone Status, and Exercise Habits: The Shimane CoHRE Study
執筆形態 その他
掲載誌名 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
出版社・発行元 MDPI AG
巻・号・頁 12(7),pp.7392-7399
著者・共著者 Miwako Takeda,Tsuyoshi Hamano,Kunie Kohno,Shozo Yano,Kuninori Shiwaku,Toru Nabika
概要 In recent years, there has been growing interest in the association between the residential environment and health. The association between residential environment (i.e., geographic elevation) and bone status is unknown. Furthermore, these associations could differ by exercise habits due to the chronically greater daily activity caused by steep slopes in mountainous areas. The aim of this study was to test whether the association between bone status of elderly people measured using quantitative ultrasound (QUS) and elevation varied according to the exercise habits in a mountainous area population. Data were collected from a cross-sectional study conducted during 2012-2013. QUS value was expressed as a proportion of the young adult mean (%YAM), with higher scores donating better bone status. After excluding subjects with missing data, we analyzed the data for 321 men and 500 women. Our results indicate that %YAM was not associated with elevation among men, or among women with exercise habits. However, elevation was associated with %YAM among women without exercise habits. Our results highlight the importance of considering residential environment and exercise habits when establishing promotion strategies to maintain bone status of the elderly people who live in rural mountainous areas.
DOI 10.3390/ijerph120707392
ISSN 1660-4601