ABSTRACT
@EN The interrelationships between measurement of bone density and anthropometric variables including body fat mass were examined in a cross-sectional study of normal healthy pre-, peri- and postmenopausal women. In addition we evaluated the
relationship between the type of body fat distribution, estimated by abdominal computed tomography scan, and bone density in some subjects. @ES The results were as follows.
@EN 1) Abdominal fat mass was somewhat higher in postmenopausal women in comparison to premenopausal women, although total body fat mass was not significantly different.
2) In premenopausal women, spinal bone density correlated positively with weight, BMI and fat mass, but only regression coefficient for fat mass was significant.
3) In postmenopausal women femoral bone density correlated with weight, height and LBM, but only regression coefficient for LBM was significant.
Theses results suggest that fat mass have a greater effect on spinal bone density among premenopausal women than among postmenopausal women. Therefore, there might be no more additive relationship of obesity on bone integrity after menopause have
occured, as expected earlier. (J Kor Soc Endocrinol 8:251~258, 1993)
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