INTRODUCTION: The study aimed to clarify associations between height loss, @entity604 and the quality of life (QOL) score among general inhabitants of Miyama, a rural Japanese community. This population-based epidemiological study was conducted in Miyama, a village located in a mountain area in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. METHODS: A list of all inhabitants comprising 1,543 inhabitants (716 @entity1 , 827 @entity1 ) born in this village between 1910-1949 was compiled. From the above whole cohort, a subcohort to measure @entity79 ( @entity79 ) was recruited, consisting of 400 @entity1 , divided into four groups of 50 @entity1 and 50 @entity1 each, and stratified into age decades by decade of birth-year (1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939 or 1940-1949). @entity79 measurement, physical measurements of height (cm) and body weight (kg) were taken, and body mass index (BMI; kg/m(2)) were calculated. @entity79 and anthropometric measurements were repeated on the same @entity1 at 3, 7 and 10 years after baseline measurement (1993, 1997 and 2000). RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Among 299 of 400 @entity1 , changes in height over 10 years for @entity1 in their 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s were -0.7 cm, -0.5 cm, -1.2 cm and -1.5 cm, respectively, compared with -0.7 cm, -1.4 cm, -2.1 cm and -3.7 cm in @entity1 , respectively. No significant relationships between change in height and rate of change in @entity79 at the lumbar spine and femoral neck after adjustment for age in @entity1 (lumbar spine, beta = 0.058, standard error of the mean (SE) = 0.031, P = 0.501, R(2) = 0.038; femoral neck, beta = 0.100, SE = 0.038, P = 0.228, R(2) = 0.121) were identified. By contrast, among @entity1 , a significant positive association was identified between height change and change rate of @entity79 at the lumbar spine after adjusting for age (beta = 0.221, SE = 0.039, P = 0.012, R(2) = 0.069), while no significant relationship was found between height change and change rate at the femoral neck (beta = 0.107, SE = 0.039, P = 0.229, R(2) = 0.048). No significant relationship was noted between @entity174 (VFx) and height at baseline in @entity1 and @entity1 ( @entity1 : odds ratio (OR) 0.93, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.81-1.05, P = 0.24; @entity1 : OR 0.97, 95% CI 0.87-1.08, P = 0.58) or between VFx and height loss ( @entity1 : OR 1.31, 95% CI 1.00-1.71, P = 0.051; @entity1 : OR 1.20, 95% CI 0.94-1.53, P = 0.14). In both @entity1 and @entity1 , no significant relationship was identified between utility of the EuroQol EQ5D questionnaire and height at baseline ( @entity1 : beta = -0.148, SE = 0.003, P = 0.202, R(2) = 0.076; @entity1 : beta = 0.127, SE = 0.004, P = 0.235, R(2) = 0.048), and height change ( @entity1 : beta = -0.078, SE = 0.008, P = 0.452, R(2) = 0.065; @entity1 : beta = 0.053, SE = 0.010, P = 0.608, R(2) = 0.038).

Association between height loss and XXXX , cumulative incidence of @entity174 and future quality of life: the Miyama study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'women', 'men'] @entity79 :: ('MESH:D001847', 'Disease') :: ['bone mineral density', 'BMD'] @entity604 :: ('MESH:D016301', 'Disease') :: ['bone loss'] @entity174 :: ('MESH:D050723', 'Disease') :: ['vertebral fractures']
@entity604 :: (MESH:D016301,Disease) :: ['bone loss']
