title: [Research on risk factors associated with osteoporosis, on two samples of patients investigated using ultrasonic osteo-densitometry].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To detect risk factors associated with osteoporosis, on two samples of patients investigated using ultrasonic osteo-densitometry method (UOD).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To found out the relation between anthropometrical data, factors which describe lifestyle of personal pathologic antecedents and T score obtained after UOD, as well as their classification.
  
  
  METHODS
  The epidemiological and imaging assessments were carried out on two samples of 364 persons from general population (the A sample), and 144 (the B sample), respectively. The registered variables were processed using adequate statistical tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the A sample, over 50% of patients had, after the T score, osteopenia, and 10% suffered from osteoporosis. Concerning the lifestyle, we highlighted: a low lactates consumption (69.7%), coffee (14.3%) and alcohol (0.8%) consumption; sedentary life (48.9%), tobacco smoking (2.2%). The risk quantification by score calculation put in evidence an average of 9.9 +/- 3.3 (for a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 20). In the B sample, the T score varied between 4.77 and 1.67. The assessment of relation between the T score and lifestyle permitted the classification in risk, protection and indifferent factors. Coffee consumption is a weak protection factor (OR = 0.84), and tobacco smoking increases osteoporosis risk 4.13 times. The risk is 3.7 for alcohol consumers, as well as for low lactate consumption (OR=2.87). Sedentary life cannot consider a risk factor, in our research.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Calculation of a individual score that show the weight risk in persons with densitometric alterations represents a practical method in monitoring persons who can be exposed of some handicap after alterations of bone structures.
authors.affiliation: Spitalul Clinic de Pneumoftiziologie Iaşi, Serviciul de Radiologie şi Imagistică, Universitatea de Medicingăş Farmacie T. Popa Iaşi, Facultatea de Medicină.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bejan
authors.forename: Doina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Azoicăi
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Saviuc
authors.forename: St
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Olteanu
authors.forename: Smaranda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ivan
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects; D003069:Coffee / Q000009:adverse effects; D003611:Dairy Products; D003720:Densitometry / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012307:Risk Factors; D012383:Romania; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D003069:Coffee