Is there a relationship between diet quality and bone health in elderly women? A cross-sectional study

• Autor(a) principal: Destefani, Silvia Andréa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Kurokawa, Cilmery Suemi [UNESP], Rodrigues, Sérgio Augusto [UNESP], Corrente, José Eduardo [UNESP], Padovani, Carlos Roberto [UNESP], de Paiva, Sérgio Alberto Rupp [UNESP], da Silva Mazeto, Gláucia Maria Ferreira [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.20945/2359-3997000000394; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/230130
• topic: Bone density; bone remodeling; diet; diet records

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.