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Associations of acculturation on peak bone mass and correlates of bone health in Latino women

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Abstract

Purpose

This research aimed to determine the effect of acculturation on bone mass and osteoporosis risk factors in Latino women.

Methods

Sixty-one women were tested for bone mineral density (BMD), physical activity, physical fitness, body composition, acculturation, and nutritional history. Three groups (low, medium, high acculturation) were compared by analysis of variance. Multiple linear regression determined predictors of BMD (p < 0.05)

Results

The high acculturation group was significantly more aerobically fit (41.8 ± 5.9 vs. 36.5 ± 6.5 and 34.6 ± 4.2 ml/kg/min) and more recreationally physically active (1882 ± 327 vs. 627 ± 179 vs. 708 ± 231 MET-min/week) than medium and low, respectively. Bone mineral density trended lower with increasing acculturation. Lean body mass was the most significant predictor of spine (r = 0.36, p < 0.05) and hip (r = 0.54, p < 0.05) BMD. Physical activity contributed significantly to the prediction of hip BMD (R = 0.59, p < 0.05).

Conclusions

Acculturation may negatively influence BMD, and does alter determinants of BMD, including aerobic fitness, physical activity and body composition, in Latino women. These data suggest that acculturation in Latino women may increase lifetime risk of osteoporosis for reasons that remain unclear.

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Acknowledgments

Funding for this project was provided by the National Institutes of Health S06 GM 8101-28.

Conflict of interest

Steven Hawkins, Noe Crespo and Amerigo Rosseullo declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.

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  1. Department of Exercise Science, California Lutheran University, 60 West Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks, CA, 91360, USA

    Steven A. Hawkins

  2. Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Noe C. Crespo

  3. University of Southern California Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Amerigo Rosseullo

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Hawkins, S.A., Crespo, N.C. & Rosseullo, A. Associations of acculturation on peak bone mass and correlates of bone health in Latino women. Sport Sci Health 10, 127–133 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11332-014-0183-z

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