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Published in: Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism 3/2018

01-09-2018 | Review Paper

Association Between Social Support and Bone Health Outcomes: a Systematic Review

Authors: Yoosik Youm, Seungwon Lee, Ekaterina Baldina

Published in: Clinical & Translational Metabolism | Issue 3/2018

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Abstract

Previous studies on the association between social support and bone health outcomes did not produce consistent results. The main goal of this study was to resolve the inconsistency by systematically examining the studies on the association in the last two decades. In order to do that, we distinguished between two types of social supports: structural supports, which is the pattern of person’s social relationship, and functional support, which is the perceived specific functions from social ties. For fracture, structural social support, especially marital (or cohabitation) status, showed a strong association between both men and women. For osteoporosis, however, only functional social support seemed to have an association, especially only among women. We want to take this conclusion as tentative since there are only 21 research papers on the topic during the period examined. We also ask for more diverse and elaborated measures of social supports developed in social studies.
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Metadata
Title
Association Between Social Support and Bone Health Outcomes: a Systematic Review
Authors
Yoosik Youm
Seungwon Lee
Ekaterina Baldina
Publication date
01-09-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Clinical & Translational Metabolism / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 1534-8644
Electronic ISSN: 2948-2445
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12018-018-9248-x

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