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Decreased Bone Mineral Density Is Correlated with Increased Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Older, but not Younger, Mexican American Women and Men: The San Antonio Family Osteoporosis Study

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An association has been reported between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and osteoporosis, perhaps attributable to the presence of common risk factors. To assess this possibility, we measured areal bone mineral density (BMD) and carotid artery intimal medial thickness (IMT), a measure of preclinical atherosclerosis, in 535 women and 335 men from the San Antonio Family Osteoporosis Study. Variance decomposition methods were used to determine whether cross-sectional measures of areal BMD (measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) of the total hip, spine, and forearm were correlated with IMT, serum lipids, and/or C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation, after accounting for known environmental factors. We observed significant inverse correlations of IMT and BMD at all bone sites in women >60 years of age (P < 0.001) and modest positive correlations (not significant) of IMT on hip BMD (P < 0.1) in women <60 years of age. Similarly, we observed negative correlations between IMT and forearm BMD in men >60 years of age (P < 0.001) and positive correlations in men <60 years of age (P = 0.05). Variation in risk factors for CVD, including serum levels of low- and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein particle size, triglycerides, paraoxonase 1 activity, and CRP did not account for the relationship between BMD and IMT in either older or younger men or women. In summary, our results demonstrate that decreased BMD is correlated with increased IMT in older (but not younger) Mexican American men and women, independent of serum CVD risk factors.

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We are deeply grateful for the cooperation of the families participating in the SAFOS. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments. This work was supported by research grants RO1-AR43351 and PO1-HL45522 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. Support for the Frederic C. Bartter General Clinical Research Center was made available by Clinical National Institutes of Health grant MO1-RR-01346.

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  1. Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA

    John R. Shaffer & Candace M. Kammerer

  2. Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TX, USA

    David L. Rainwater

  3. Department of Radiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Daniel H. O’Leary

  4. University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Jan M. Bruder & Richard L. Bauer

  5. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Braxton D. Mitchell

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Shaffer, J.R., Kammerer, C.M., Rainwater, D.L. et al. Decreased Bone Mineral Density Is Correlated with Increased Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Older, but not Younger, Mexican American Women and Men: The San Antonio Family Osteoporosis Study. Calcif Tissue Int 81, 430–441 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00223-007-9079-0

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