Mahmud
Publication Details
Mahmud, M.,
Muscatello, D.,
Rahman, B.,
&
Osborne, N.
(2024).
Mahmud.
Osteoporosis International, Early View (Online First).
Abstract
Summary: The efect of deprivation on total bone health status has not been well defned. We examined the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and poor bone health and falls and we found a significant association. The finding could be beneficial for current public health strategies to minimise disparities in bone health.
Purpose: Socioeconomic deprivation is associated with many illnesses including increased fracture incidence in older people. However, the efect of deprivation on total bone health status has not been well defned. To examine the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and poor bone health and falls, we conducted a cross-sectional study using baseline measures from the United Kingdom (UK) Biobank cohort comprising 502,682 participants aged 40–69 years at recruitment during 2006–2010.
Method: We examined four outcomes: 1) low bone mineral density/osteopenia, 2) fall in last year, 3) fracture in the last five years, and 4) fracture from a simple fall in the last five years. To measure socioeconomic deprivation, we used the Townsend index of the participant’s residential postcode.
Results: At baseline, 29% of participants had low bone density (T-score of heel<-1 standard deviation), 20% reported a fall in the previous year, and 10% reported a fracture in the previous five years. Among participants experiencing a fracture, 60% reported the cause as a simple fall. In the multivariable logistic regression model after controlling for other covariates, the odds of a fall, fracture in the last fve years, fractures from simple fall, and osteopenia were respectively 1.46 times (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.42–1.49), 1.26 times (95% CI 1.22–1.30), 1.31 times (95% CI 1.26–1.36) and 1.16 times (95% CI 1.13–1.19) higher for the most deprived compared with the least deprived quantile.
Conclusion: Socioeconomic deprivation was significantly associated with poor bone health and falls. This research could be beneficial to minimise social disparities in bone health.
Keywords
deprivation, falls, fracture, low bone mineral density, osteopenia, SES
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