Epidemiological Study of Low Bone Mineral Density States in Patients Visiting Centre For Nuclear Medicine(CENUM), Mayo Hospital, Lahore

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study is to identify risk factors related to low BMD among
patients attending the Centre for Nuclear Medicine (CENUM).
Methods: It was a cross sectional study conducted at the Centre for Nuclear Medicine (CENUM)
Mayo Hospital Lahore, from February 2011 to September 2011.A sample of 246 participants aged
50 to 85 years (both male and female) was selected using non probability convenient sampling
technique. Magnitude of BMD status was described using T score as WHO criteria.The data was
analyzed by using SPSS version 17.Pearson Correlation was applied to find relationship between
different quantitative variable. Also, an independent sample T test was applied to see the
significant difference.
Results: The results have shown that out of 246 participants, 24 (9.8%) were men and 222 were
women (90.2%) aged 50-85 yrs. BMD has significant correlation with age, weight and height of
the patients ( p ≤ 0.05 for both at Left Hip and lumber spine T score). Also, the patients who did
physical activity and had sufficient intake of calcium supplement showed better BMD( p ≤ 0.05 for
both Left Hip and lumber spine T score respectively)as compared to other patients. The patients
who had low backache also showed low BMD( p ≤ 0.000 for Left Hip and p ≤ 0.000 for Lumber
spine T score).
Conclusions: Based on the study results it is concluded that low BMD is a wide spread public
health problem and it needs due importance.