Relationship between Body Mass Index and Minerals in Male Japanese Adults

• Yasuda Hiroshi

  Research Laboratory, La Belle Vie Inc.

• Yonashiro Toshie

  Research Laboratory, La Belle Vie Inc.

• Yoshida Kazuya

  Research Laboratory, La Belle Vie Inc.

• Ishii Tomiko

  Research Laboratory, La Belle Vie Inc.

• Tsutsui Toyoharu

  Research Laboratory, La Belle Vie Inc.

抄録

In order to examine possible relationship between minerals and body mass index (BMI), we measured hair concentrations of 24 bio-elements including essential minerals and toxic metals in over 1500 male Japanese adults aged 20-60 years. Several essential minerals were found to be significantly high and positively or inversely correlated to BMI. The best BMI-correlated element was potassium (K) with the highest regression coefficient of r = 0.240, followed by mercury (Hg) (r = 0.207), molybdenum (Mo) (r = 0.202), sodium (Na) (r = 0.170), boron (B) (r = 0.144), selenium (Se) (r = 0.138) and aluminum (Al) (r = 0.131) with the p-value of p < 0.0000 for every element. Using the regression line of BMI = 2.23 Log Hg + 14.95 obtained, a 10-fold increase in mercury level was estimated to associate with a 2.2-point increment in BMI. The most inverse-correlated mineral to BMI was magnesium (Mg) (r = -0.264), followed by calcium (Ca) (r = -0.248) and zinc (Zn) (r = -0.166, p < 0.0000), which are representative competitive bio-elements against mercury. These findings suggest possibility that some minerals contribute to regulation of BMI, and higher dietary mercury intake is associated with the increase of BMI in male Japanese adults. Dietary intake of the competitive minerals against mercury, such as Mg, Ca and Zn, may be useful for controlling human body weights.

収録刊行物

• Biomedical Research on Trace Elements

  Biomedical Research on Trace Elements 17 (3), 316-321, 2006

  日本微量元素学会

キーワード

• body mass index
• mercury
• magnesium
• calcium
• zinc
• mineralomics

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001204368040448
• NII論文ID: 10019372620
• NII書誌ID: AN10423256
• DOI: 10.11299/brte.17.316
• COI: 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2sXksFOqsA%3D%3D
• ISSN: 18801404
• ISSN: 0916717X
• NDL書誌ID: 8575933
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/8575933
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I8575933
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2007173634
• 本文言語コード: en
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