Bone Microarchitecture in Women Practicing Golf

Bone Microarchitecture Clinical Trial

Official title:

Is Golf a Sport Suited to the Female Skeleton After 60 Years? Pilot Study Evaluating the Microarchitecture 3D Carriers and Noncarriers Bones

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02544399
• Other study ID #: 0801092
• Secondary ID: 2008-A01265-50
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 7, 2015
• Last updated: September 8, 2015
• Start date: November 2009
• Est. completion date: June 2013

Study information

• Verified date: September 2015
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis)
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

After the age of 50, one in three women and one in eight men will experience at least one fragility fracture during the rest of their lives. It is currently recognized that physical activity has an osteogenic actions, especially when it includes the impact transmitted to the skeleton. In this context, the investigators propose a study to determine whether the regular practice of golf could be particularly beneficial for the skeleton, not only in the lower limbs, due to repeated impacts to the ground when it requires sustained walking, but also the upper limbs due to the impacts transmitted by the club at the time of striking the ball, as has been amply demonstrated with racquet sports.

Description:

Each patient will have 1 blood samples and 1 measure of bone by 3D micro-tomography (3D CT Scan).These examinations and sampling will take place on 1 day.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 67
• Est. completion date: June 2013
• Est. primary completion date: June 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 60 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Golfers: Regular playing golf for over 2 years at 8 to 12 hours per week recruited into golf clubs.

• Walkers: regular practice of walking for over 2 years at 8 to 12 hours per week recruited into the walking clubs.

• Sedentary: no intensive physical activity (<2 hours / week), recruited in clubs seniors.

Exclusion Criteria:

• concomitant bone disease ,

• Hip prosthesis the dominant side

• Endocrinopathy

• hypercalcemia, vitamin D deficiency, hypo- or hyper calciuria

• Active smoking (more than 5 cigarettes / day), chronic alcoholism,

• Treatments received in the previous six months and resounding on bone metabolism such growth promoters, all osteoporosis, corticosteroids.

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bone Microarchitecture

Intervention

Other:
• 3D CT scan
Measure of bone micro-architecture by 3D micro-tomography

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Bone volume / tissue volume	Measure of Bone volume / tissue volume by the 3D CT scan	day 1	Yes