Age- and Sex-related Changes in Vertebral Trabecular Bone Architecture in Neolithic and Mediaeval Populations from Poland

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2024 May 1

PMID 38693297

Authors

Francesco Maria Galassi

Wieslaw Lorkiewicz

Jaroslaw Filipiak

Anna Nikodem

Elzbieta Zadzinska

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Abstract

This paper investigates trabecular bone ontogenetic changes in two different Polish populations, one prehistoric and the other historical. The studied populations are from the Brześć Kujawski region in Kujawy (north-central Poland), one from the Neolithic Period (4500-4000 BC) and one from the Middle Ages (twelfth-sixteenth centuries AD), in total 62 vertebral specimens (32 males, 30 females). Eight morphometric parameters acquired from microCT scan images were analysed. Two-way ANOVA after Box-Cox transformation and multifactorial regression model were calculated. A significant decrease in percentage bone volume fraction (BV/TV; [%]) with age at death was observed in the studied sample; Tb.N (trabecular number) was also significantly decreased with age; trabecular separation (Tb.Sp) increased with advancing age; connectivity density (Conn.D) was negatively correlated with biological age and higher in the Neolithic population. These data are found to be compatible with data from the current biomedical literature, while no loss of horizontal trabeculae was recorded as would be expected based on modern osteoporosis.

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