Associations between abdominal obesity and the prevalence of fractures among Chinese adults: insights from a nationwide cross-sectional study
Abdominal obesity was independently associated with impaired balance and elevated prevalence of vertebral fractures and clinical fractures, even in normal-weight individuals. WHtR demonstrated superior discriminative power for vertebral fractures.
Authors
- W. Qi
- L. Wang
- Shunyu Tang
- Xiangjun Yin
- Qianqian Pang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4028-5560)
- Zhongjian Xie
- Xia Weibo
- Lijia Cui
- Zhixin Li
- Yan Jiang
- Hua Lin
- Lu Cui
- Mei Li
- Lin Chen
- Wei Yu
- Xiaolan Jin
Institutions
- Central South University (CN)
- Army Medical University (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
- National Health and Family Planning Commission (CN)
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital (CN)
- Daping Hospital (CN)
- Chengdu Military General Hospital (CN)
- Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital (CN)
- National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention (CN)
- National Clinical Research (US)
- Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (TW)
- Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Endocrinology
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2026.1759573
- Primary Topic
- Bone health and osteoporosis research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital
- Peking Union Medical College
- National Science and Technology Major Project