Longitudinal Gerontological Research Over 10 Years (Basel Studies, 1955–1965)

Or, Gsell

doi:10.1159/000244990

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“…Several early anthropology studies describe cross-sectional assessment of height and age-related decline noted a range of 1.3 cm to 4.0 cm of loss per decade; 35-37 however, these studies included a large proportion of subjects aged 20-45, a time when little or no height loss occurs. Galloway 21 analyzed height loss for adults over 50, based on recall of height at age 25 and current measurement, and reported that while most participants did not recognize that they lost height, over 90 percent had height loss.…”

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Height loss predicts subsequent hip fracture in men and women of the Framingham Study

Hannan

Broe

Cupples

et al. 2011

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

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Background Although height is a risk factor for osteoporotic fracture, current risk assessments do not consider height loss. Height loss may be a simple measurement that clinicians could use to predict fracture or need for further testing. Objective To examine height loss and subsequent hip fracture, evaluating both long-term adult height loss and recent height loss. Methods Prospective cohort of 3,081 adults from the Framingham Heart Study. Height was measured biennially since 1948, and cohort followed for hip fracture through 2005. Adult height loss from middle-age years across 24 years and recent height loss in elderly years were considered. Cox proportional hazard regression was used to estimate association between height loss and risk of hip fracture. Results Of 1,297 men and 1,784 women, mean baseline age was 66y (SD7.8). Average height loss for men was 1.06 inches (0.76), and for women was 1.12 inches (0.84). 11% of men and 15% of women lost ≤ 2 inches of height. Mean follow-up was 17y during which 71 men and 278 women had incident hip fractures. For each 1-inch of height loss, HR=1.4 in men (95%CI: 1.00, 1.99), and 1.04 in women (95%CI: 0.88, 1.23). Men and women who lost ≤ 2 inches of height had increased fracture risk (compared to 0 to <2 inches) of borderline significance: men HR=1.8, 95%CI: 0.86, 3.61; women HR=1.3, 95%CI: 0.90, 1.76. Recent height loss in elders significantly increased the risk of hip fracture, 54% in men and 21% in women (95%CI: 1.14, 2.09; 1.03, 1.42, respectively). Conclusions Adult height loss predicted hip fracture risk in men in our study. Recent height loss in elderly men and women predicted risk of hip fracture.

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Height loss predicts subsequent hip fracture in men and women of the Framingham Study

Hannan

Broe

Cupples

et al. 2011

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

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“…Noppa, Andersson, Bengtsson, Bruce and Isaksson (1980) determined that no decline in stature occurred for women before the age of 40, but thereafter decline increased as age increased. Although Damon (1965) found no decline in males up to a maximum age of 56, Gsell (1967) found a decrease totalling 4-0 cm, exclusive of secular change, in the stature of males between 30 and 60 years of age. Similarly, Susanne (1977Susanne ( , 1980 found that males declined after age 45, while Borkan and Norris (1977) found a decrease after 25 years of age.…”

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Age changes in adult stature: trend estimation from mixed longitudinal data

Chandler

Bock

1991

Annals of Human Biology

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Although it is widely accepted that persons become shorter as they grow older, most estimates of the rate of decline are based largely on cross-sectional studies and are confounded by secular changes and individual variation. The present study uses a mixed series of longitudinal physical measurements, obtained by the Busselton Population Studies Group, for nearly the entire adult population of Busselton, Western Australia. All persons in the sample who had a minimum of three measures at 3-year intervals are included in our analysis, regardless of health. Random regressions analysis of the individual height and age data is used to estimate the expected rate of decline of stature with age. A significant sex difference was found, with females declining at a greater rate than males, particularly after the age of 40.

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“…Changes also may be attributable to other factors than age, e.g., differences in sampling and measurement technique, environmental conditions and genetic composition (3). The only reliable mean of evaluating the importance of the aging factor involves repeated measurements of body length (5). Longitudinal measurements of the body length of men during a ten‐year period revealed a decrease in stature beginning after the age of 30.…”

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“…The trend towards reduced stature in old age has been confirmed in several studies (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8). Dent (9) suggested that the stature loss is an early physical sign of osteoporosis.…”

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Stature and Aging*

Kalliomäki

Siltavuori

Virtama

1973

J American Geriatrics Society

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The study series consisted of 100 women and 100 men over the age of 45 who remembered their heights at the age of 20. Ninety women and 36 men also recalled their weights at age 20. The combined cortical thickness and the cortical index of both clavicles were measured, as well as the height and weight. The reduction of height for the 45–59 age group in women was 1.8 cm, and in men 1.1 cm; for the 60–69 age group in women it was 2.7 cm, and in men 1.7 cm; and for the 70+ age group in women it was 2.8 cm, and in men 2.0 cm. The difference between women and men was significant in the two younger age groups. There was a significant increase in the weight of women in the age groups 45–59 and 60–69 compared with their weight at the age of 20. No significant difference was found for the men. The reduction of stature was considered to be the result of loss of intervertebral tissue and pronounced curvatures of the spine (characteristic of old women gaining weight) rather than osteoporosis.

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Longitudinal Gerontological Research Over 10 Years (Basel Studies, 1955–1965)

Cited by 15 publications

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Height loss predicts subsequent hip fracture in men and women of the Framingham Study

Height loss predicts subsequent hip fracture in men and women of the Framingham Study

Age changes in adult stature: trend estimation from mixed longitudinal data

Stature and Aging*

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