Protein Consumption And The Occurrence Of Osteoporosis

Therefore we tried to investigate the relationship between risk of the osteoporosis and the dietary protein of the Korean adults. We used the data from Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 4 (KNHANES 4; 2008~2009) for analysis. Participant who were 19 year-old or over and had never been treated for osteoporosis were included for analysis. Assessment of dietary intake obtained by 24-hour recall method and participants were grouped by the tertile of the amount of protein intake. Total 6,461 subjects were included in this study and 624 of among those were classified to the osteoporosis. For the lumbar osteoporosis, the highest tertile protein intake group has significantly lower odds compared to the lowest tertile group (OR 0.695, 95% CI 0.508~0.952) for women. For men, the highest tertile group has significantly lower odds compared to the lowest tertile group and it kept significance even after the associated factors were adjusted (OR 0.519, 95% CI 0.284~0.949).