| Abstract: | The objective of this cross‐sectional study was to compare the body composition and fat distribution measured by dual energy X‐ray absorptiometry (DPX, Lunar) in different age decades of age‐matched Danish and Italian women. The subjects comprised 133 healthy Italian women (age 20–60 years) age‐matched to a representative sub‐sample of healthy Danish women (n=375). Total and abdominal body fat tissue mass were measured by dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry. Italian women were shorter and fatter compared with age‐matched Danish women, but in middle‐age, had a less abdominal fat distribution. There was no difference in total body bone mineral density. |
