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Relationship between nutritional biomarkers and health status in the Korean elderly women
Author(s) -
Yang Eunju,
Chung Haekyung
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.22.1_supplement.1095.6
Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal obesity , waist , triglyceride , blood pressure , obesity , endocrinology , body mass index , anthropometry , metabolic syndrome , cholesterol , physiology
This study was performed to exam association between nutritional biomarkers and health status based on metabolic syndrome (MS) and obesity in the elderly women. This was a across‐sectional study involving Korean elderly women (≥60, n=99) and socio‐demographics, life style characteristics, health conditions, dietary behavior, anthropometric measures (wt, ht, waist, hip, body protein, body fat, and abdominal fat, triceps skinfold thickness), and nutritional biomarkers (serum total cholesterol, HDL‐cholesterol, triglyceride, total protein, albumin, prealbumin, hemoglobin, hematocrit, fasting blood glucose, HbA1C, ferritin, Zn, Ca, Na, K, Vt. B12, folate), and systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure were examined. MS group had significantly higher WBC, serum TG and glucose level, but had lower serum HDL‐cholesterol and folate level than normal elderly women. Obesity group had significantly higher serum TG and glucose level, but lower serum HDL‐cholesterol level than normal weight elderly women. Serum TG, HDL‐cholesterol, and glucose were significantly correlated with BMI, waist, WHR, and abdominal fat(%) which suggested the risk of abdominal obesity for health status in the Korean elderly women. Other nutritional biomarkers except serum folate were not significantly related to the health status in the elderly women. These results suggest that serum TG, HDL‐cholesterol, glucose, and abdominal obesity may be the important risk factors in the Korean elderly women. (Funded by the Korea Research Foundation)