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Table 2 Coefficients of correlation between BMD at various skeletal sites and bone turnover markers corrected for height and weight in the pre- and postmenopausal women

From: Age-related bone turnover markers and osteoporotic risk in native Chinese women

Marker

Premenopausal

Postmenopausal

PA-BMD

FN-BMD

Hip-BMD

PA-BMD

FN-BMD

Hip-BMD

BAP

−0.35*

−0.16▲

−0.21*

−0.30*

−0.01

−0.05

OC

−0.27*

−0.11▲

−0.12▲

−0.30*

−0.19▲

−0.22*

sNTX

−0.15▲

−0.11▲

−0.08

−0.02

−0.06

−0.08

sCTX

−0.20*

−0.14▲

−0.07

−0.23*

−0.10

−0.10

uNTX

−0.05

−0.06

−0.10

−0.09

0.02

−0.01

uCTX

−0.16▲

−0.08

−0.07

−0.14▲

−0.01

−0.06

uDPD

−0.10

−0.05

−0.03

−0.05

0.10

0.04

  1. Abbreviations: as in Table 1. *P = 0.000. ▲ P = 0.040–0.003.