Author(s)

Kürşat Hazar^1*, Recep Gürsoy², Neşat Çullu³

¹School of Physical Education and Sport, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Osmaniye, Turkey.
²Faculty of Sport Sciences, Department of Coaching Education, Muğla Sitki Koçman University, Muğla, Turkey.
³Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Radiology Muğla Sitki Koçman University, Muğla, Turkey.

This study was carried out to determine how and to what extent the physical activity of sedentary and sportive life affects the bone mineral density (BMD) of individuals in different occupational groups (barbers, industrial workers, drivers, people leading sedentary lives, and athletes), which concern a large part of the society. Barbers, industrial workers, drivers, sedentary people, and athletes working in different occupational groups were included in the study. Femur and forearm (ulna-radius) BMD measurements of 47 individuals were conducted, including 7 drivers and 10 participants from each other professional group. BMD total femur values of the athletes are 1.2664, of industrial workers, is 1.1876, of drivers, is 1.0544, of hairdressers, is 1.0208, and values of sedentary people are found as 1.0080. In the total of BMD Ulna Radius, the values of industry employees are found as 0.685, of athletes as 668, of barbers as 582, and of sedentary people are found to be 0.449. There was a significant difference between the mean BMD values of industrial workers and the barbers, and sedentary people, in favor of industrial workers (p < 0.05). When multiple analyzes between groups were examined; it was found that there was a significant difference between only the average values of sedentary people and industrial workers and athletes in forearm BMD value averages (p < 0.05). The values of athletes and industrial workers are higher than those of sedentary people. While BMD of individuals in five different occupational groups was found to have a positive effect on BMD, especially with occupational groups requiring physical activation, it was found that sedentary life did not have a positive effect on BMD.

Bone Mineral Density, Profession, Sportsman, Sedentary

Hazar, K. , Gürsoy, R. and Çullu, N. (2020) Investigation of Bone Mineral Density Levels of Adult Individuals in Different Professional Groups, Sedentary People, and the Same Age Group Athletes. Advances in Physical Education, 10, 251-261. doi: 10.4236/ape.2020.103021.