Weak correlations between body height and several brain metrics in healthy elderly subjects.
body height
cerebellar white matter
cerebellum cortex
cortical surface area
cortical thickness
cortical volume
intracranial volume
normal-appearing cerebral white matter
subcortical grey matter
total brain volume
white matter hyperintensity
Journal
The European journal of neuroscience
ISSN: 1460-9568
Titre abrégé: Eur J Neurosci
Pays: France
ID NLM: 8918110
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2019
11 2019
Historique:
received:
13
01
2019
revised:
18
06
2019
accepted:
27
06
2019
pubmed:
7
7
2019
medline:
1
9
2020
entrez:
7
7
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The question whether body height is related to different brain size measures has recently gained renewed interest as some studies have reported that body height correlates with intelligence and several brain size measures. In this study, we re-evaluated this question by examining the relationship between body height and different brain size measures including intracranial volume, total brain volume, total cortical surface area, total cortical volume, volume of normal-appearing white matter, white matter hyperintensity, cortical surface area, cortical thickness, subcortical grey matter volume, cerebellar cortex and cerebellar white matter in a relatively large sample (n = 216) of physically and cognitively healthy elderly subjects (mean age 71 years, age range 65-85 years). We identified small correlations (r = .11-.19) between body height and seven out of 10 brain metrics (total brain volume, cortical surface area, cortical volume, subcortical volume, normal-appearing white matter volume and cerebellar grey as well as white matter volumes) when controlling for sex and age. Based on these small relationships between body height and various brain size measures, we discuss the possible reasons and theoretical problems for these small relationships.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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Pagination
3578-3589Informations de copyright
© 2019 Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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