Aurelia Santoro, Giulia Guidarelli, Rita Ostan, Enrico Giampieri, Cristina Fabbri, Claudia Bertarelli, Claudio Nicoletti, Fawzi Kadi, Lisette C P G M de Groot, Edith Feskens, Agnes Berendsen, Anna Brzozowska, Olga Januszko, Katarzyna Kozlowska, Susan Fairweather-Tait, Amy Jennings, Nathalie Meunier, Elodie Caumon, Alessandro Napoli, Daniele Mercatelli, Giuseppe Battista, Miriam Capri, Claudio Franceschi, Alberto Bazzocchi
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this work was to examine the cross-sectional relationship between body composition (BC) markers for adipose and lean tissue and bone mass, and a wide range of specific inflammatory and adipose-related markers in healthy elderly Europeans. METHODS: A whole-body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan was made in 1121 healthy (65-79 years) women and men from five European countries of the "New dietary strategies addressing the specific needs of elderly population for a healthy aging in Europe" project (NCT01754012) cohort to measure markers of adipose and lean tissue and bone mass...
September 2019: European Radiology