ABSTRACT
To determine the relationships among silent brain infarction (SBI), bone mineral density and milk consumption in elderly women, we studied 26 senile female outpatients with SBI in comparison with 18 age-matched controls.<BR>There was a significant difference between the two groups in diastolic blood pressure (p<0.05), and a significantly larger number of individuals in the SBI group had a history of hypertension than in the control group (p<0.005). Bone mineral density at the ultradistal end of the radius tended to be lower in the SBI group than in the control group (0.05<p<0.1). Milk consumption was greater in the control group than in the SBI group (p<0.01), but milk consumption tended to correlate with a history of hypertension rather than with bone mineral density (0.05<p<0.1).<BR>These finding indicated a close correlation between SBI and milk consumption habits in elderly women.