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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1995; 18(2):117-123

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1995.18.2.117

Original Article

The Relationship between Spinal Bone Mineral Density and Serum Lipid Profile in Postmenopausal Women

Hye Won Chung, Seung Cheol Kim

Copyright ⓒ 1995. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

After menopause, the incidence of osteoporosis and cardiovascular is increased and the cause of both disease is estrogen deficiency. So we evaluated the relationship between serum lipid profile which is a good indicator of the cardiovascular disease and spinal bone mineral density. Spinal BMD was measured by dual photon absorptiometry and serum lipid profile and alkaline phosphatase, total calcium measured before initiating hormone replacement therapy. Z score was correlated with inversely with alkaline phosphatase(r=-0.35, p<0.05). Serum lipid level were divided into high and low risk category, after adjustment of risk category total cholesterol had significant affects on relationship with spinal Z score. Our results suggest that postmenopausal women with low Z score also have high total cholesterol should be cosidered as a special high risk group for prevention of cardioavascular disease.