Bone mineral density status in women with limbus vertebra

Year 2018, Volume: 40 Issue: 4, 469 - 474, 29.12.2018

Mustafa Yavuz Samanci Sadiye Saratas Suat Erol Celik

https://doi.org/10.7197/223.vi.460813

Abstract

Introduction:
Although genetics and cumulative mechanical stress on an immature skeleton have
been proposed to play a role in the development of the limbus vertebra (LV),
there is no data concerning the actual degree of bone strength and bone loss in
patients with LV.

Aim:
The aim of this study was to evaluate the bone mineral density (BMD) and the
prevalence of osteoporosis in women with LV and compare with age- and body mass
index-matched women.

Material
and Methods: This study was carried out on 171
women (aged 40–49 years) with LV and 190 women without LV. Lumbar spine BMD
values were obtained by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.

Results:
A total of 361 patients were included in the study. The mean total BMD value
was significantly lower (0.876 ± 0.155 vs. 0.966 ± 0.187 g/cm2, p < 0.0001),
and the mean T-score value was significantly higher (-1.6 ± 1.41 vs. -0.8 ± 1.71,
p < 0.0001) in patients with LV. Although the frequency of both osteopenia
and osteoporosis were higher in patients with LV, the difference reached
statistical significance only for osteoporosis (p = 0.007).

Conclusion: Women with LV have lower BMD values and higher
osteoporosis rates than age- and BMI-matched controls; therefore, osteoporosis
should be evaluated in these patients.

Keywords

Bone Mineral Density, Limbus Vertebra, Osteopenia, Osteoporosis, Premenopausal

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