Associations between body mass index across adult life and hip shapes at age 60 to 64 : Evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort

Muthuri, Stella GSaunders, Fiona RHardy, Rebecca JPavlova, Anastasia VMartin, Kathryn RGregory, Jennifer SBarr, Rebecca JAdams, Judith EKuh, DianaAspden, Richard MCooper, Rachel2017-10-272017-10-272017-12Muthuri, S G, Saunders, F R, Hardy, R J, Pavlova, A V, Martin, K R, Gregory, J S, Barr, R J, Adams, J E, Kuh, D, Aspden, R M & Cooper, R 2017, 'Associations between body mass index across adult life and hip shapes at age 60 to 64 : Evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort', Bone, vol. 105, pp. 115-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2017.08.0178756-3282ORCID: /0000-0001-7130-6777/work/47219974http://hdl.handle.net/2164/9516Funding: The NSHD is funded by the UK Medical Research Council. SGM, RC, RJH and DK are supported by the UK Medical Research Council (Programme codes: MC_UU_12019/1, MC_UU_12019/2 and MC_UU_12019/4). This project was funded by the UK Medical Research Council (Grant MR/L010399/1) which supported SGM, AVP and FRS. The funders of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of this manuscript. Acknowledgements: We thank Dr. Michael Machin for his valuable assistance obtaining the images and the University of Aberdeen Data Management Team for programming support for ‘Shape’. The authors are grateful to NSHD study members who took part in the clinic data collection for their continuing support. We thank members of the NSHD scientific and data collection teams at the following centres: MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing; Wellcome Trust (WT) Clinical Research Facility (CRF) Manchester; WTCRF and Medical Physics at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh; WTCRF and Department of Nuclear Medicine at University Hospital Birmingham; WTCRF and the Department of Nuclear Medicine at University College London Hospital; CRF and the Department of Medical Physics at the University Hospital of Wales; CRF and Twin Research Unit at St Thomas' Hospital London. Data used in this publication are available to bona fide researchers upon request to the NSHD Data Sharing Committee via a standard application procedure. Further details can be found at: http://www.nshd.mrc.ac.uk/data; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5522/NSHD/Q102; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5522/NSHD/Q102A.7501285englife course epidemiologybody mass indexhip shapestatistical shape modellingR MedicineMedical Research Council (MRC)MC_UU_12019/1MC_UU_12019/2MC_UU_12019/4MR/L010399/1RAssociations between body mass index across adult life and hip shapes at age 60 to 64 : Evidence from the 1946 British birth cohortJournal article10.1016/j.bone.2017.08.017105