Zusammenfassung
Studienziel
Ziel der Untersuchung war es, den Einfluss eines langjährigen körperlichen Trainings
auf die Inzidenz klinischer Fraktu-ren zu erfassen.
Material und Methoden
137 frühpostmenopausale Frauen mit Osteopenie wurden 1998 in die EFOPS-Studie eingeschlossen.
86 Personen wählten den durchgängig überwachten Trainingsarm der Studie (TG), 51 traten
der Kontrollgruppe (KG) bei. Primärer Endpunkt waren Frakturrate und -risiko von nied-rigtraumatischen
klinischen Frakturen, se-kundärer Endpunkt die Knochendichte.
Ergebnisse
105 Teilnehmer mit ca. 1650 Teilnehmerjahren wurden in die 16-Jahres-Messung eingeschlossen.
Frakturrisiko (Relatives Risiko: 0,51; 95%-Konfidenzintervall: 0,23–0,97) und -rate
(0,42; 0,20–0,86) lagen in der Trainingsgruppe signifikant niedriger als in der Kontrollgruppe.
In beiden Gruppen sank die Knochendichte an Lendenwirbelsäu-le (TG: –1,5 ± 5,0 % vs.
KG: 5,8 ± 6,4 %) und Schenkelhals (TG: –6,5 ± 4,6 % vs. KG: 9,6 ± 5,0 %) signifikant
ab, die Reduktion der KG lag jedoch für beide Regionen signifikant (p ≤ 0,001) höher.
Fazit
Die vorliegende Untersuchung bestätigt mit ausreichender statistischer Power den frakturpräventiven
Effekt eines langjährigen körperlichen Trainings bei motivierten, post-menopausalen
Frauen mit einem bewusst sportlich aktiven Lebensstil.
Summary
Aim of the study
Fragility and osteoporosis related fractures are an increasingly prominent health
problem in our aging society. Physical exercising positively affects bone strength
and fall rate and may therefore be an efficient option for actively preventing fracture
on an autonomous basis at an advanced age. However, due to low statistical power no
present study clearly determines the anti-fracture efficacy of exercise. Thus, the
primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of exercise on clinical “overall”
low-trauma fracture incidence in postmenopausal females.
Material and methods
137 early postmenopausal, osteopenic women living in the area of Erlangen-Nuremberg
(Germany) were included in the Erlangen Fitness and Osteoporosis Prevention-study
(EFOPS) in 1998. 86 subjects joined the exercise group (EG) and performed a sophisticated
consistently supervised exercise training over 16 years, 51 subjects joined the non-training
control group (CG) that was requested to maintain their physical activity level and
lifestyle. Primary study-endpoint was low-trauma fracture rate and -risk, secondary
study-endpoints were BMD at lumbar spine and femoral neck assessed by Dual-Energy
X-Ray-Absorptio-metry.
Results
After 16 years of intervention, 105 subjects representing ≈ 1650 patient-years were
included in the analysis. The groups significantly differed for “overall” clinical
fracture number (rate ratio: 0.47; 95%-Confidence Interval [CI]: 0.24–0.92) and low-trauma
overall clinical fracture number (rate ratio: 0.42; 95%-CI: 0.20–0.86) in favour of
the exercise group. Bone Mineral Density at the lumbar spine (Mean ± SD: EG: –1.5
± 5.0 % vs. CG: 5.8 ± 6.4 %) and femoral neck (EG: –6.5 ± 4.6 % vs. CG: –9.6 ± 5.0
%) significantly decreased in both groups, however, the reduction was significantly
more pronounced in the CG (p ≤ 0.001).
Conclusion
Generally, this study evidenced the high anti-fracture efficiency of sophisticated
multi-purpose exercise programs. With respect to the dimension of fracture reduction,
this study averages in the range of potent pharmaceutical interventions. So far, we
conclude that for subjects willing and able to exercise frequently, lifelong exercise
may be the best choice for autonomous fracture prevention. However, due to the non-randomized
study design ultimate evidence to conclude this issue has still to be provided.
Schlüsselwörter Körperliches Training - Fraktur - Knochendichte - Menopause - Osteopenie
Keywords Physical activity - exercise - fracture - bone mineral density - menopause - osteopenia