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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Nov 5;71(3):742–755. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18121

Table 3.

Sex- and Race-Stratified Relationships* of Baseline Covariates with Total Hip BMD Pooled for the Two Cohorts

Women Men
Covariates White Black White Black
Mean±SD p Mean±SD p Mean±SD p Mean±SD p
Age −0.25 <0.001 −0.20 <0.001 −0.17 <0.001 −0.05 0.184
Body mass index 0.46 <0.001 0.52 <0.001 0.36 <0.001 0.48 <0.001
Waist circumference 0.34 <0.001 0.43 <0.001 0.23 <0.001 0.36 <0.001
Systolic blood pressure 0.05 0.082 0.02 0.569 0.01 0.788 0.00 0.929
Antihypertensive medication <0.001 0.013 0.0629 0.187
 No 0.74 ± 0.13 0.84 ± 0.16 0.93 ± 0.15 1.01 ± 0.15
 Yes 0.76 ± 0.13 0.87 ± 0.15 0.95 ± 0.15 1.03 ± 0.16
Diabetes mellitus <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
 No 0.74 ± 0.13 0.84 ± 0.15 0.93 ± 0.15 1.00 ± 0.15
 Yes 0.80 ± 0.14 0.90 ± 0.15 0.98 ± 0.14 1.07 ± 0.17
Smoking status <0.001 0.012 0.011 <0.001
 Never 0.75 ± 0.13 0.86 ± 0.15 0.93 ± 0.15 1.05 ± 0.16
 Former 0.75 ± 0.13 0.86 ± 0.13 0.94 ± 0.15 1.02 ± 0.15
 Current 0.70 ± 0.13 0.82 ± 0.17 0.89 ± 0.17 0.97 ± 0.14
Heavy alcohol 0.406 0.338 0.025 0.976
 No 0.75 ± 0.13 0.86 ± 0.15 0.94 ± 0.15 1.02 ± 0.16
 Yes 0.76 ± 0.13 0.89 ± 0.14 0.97 ± 0.16 1.02 ± 0.17
Physical activity 0.07 0.014 −0.00 0.890 0.09 <0.001 0.10 0.013
Estrogen replacement therapy <0.001 0.008 NA NA
 No 0.73 ± 0.13 0.85 ± 0.15 NA NA
 Yes 0.78 ± 0.13 0.90 ± 0.13 NA NA
Prevalent coronary heart disease 0.063 0.650 0.706 0.655
 No 0.75 ± 0.13 0.86 ± 0.15 0.94 ± 0.15 1.02 ± 0.15
 Yes 0.73 ± 0.14 0.85 ± 0.16 0.94 ± 0.15 1.01 ± 0.17
Prevalent stroke/transient ischemic attack 0.888 0.007 0.039 0.320
 No 0.75 ± 0.13 0.86 ± 0.15 0.94 ± 0.15 1.02 ± 0.16
 Yes 0.75 ± 0.14 0.81 ± 0.13 0.91 ± 0.13 1.04 ± 0.16
Prevalent peripheral arterial disease 0.697 0.950 0.252 0.062
 No 0.75 ± 0.13 0.86 ± 0.15 0.94 ± 0.15 1.02 ± 0.16
 Yes 0.74 ± 0.17 0.86 ± 0.15 0.92 ± 0.15 0.95 ± 0.11
Prevalent atrial fibrillation 0.009 0.116 0.246 0.752
 No 0.75 ± 0.13 0.86 ± 0.15 0.94 ± 0.15 1.02 ± 0.16
 Yes 0.70 ± 0.13 0.81 ± 0.15 0.96 ± 0.17 1.03 ± 0.16
Estimated glomerular filtration rate −0.02 0.470 0.00 0.921 0.01 0.749 0.01 0.779
Forced expiratory volume in 1 s 0.22 <0.001 0.04 0.262 0.17 <0.001 0.13 0.001
C-reactive protein 0.03 0.324 0.18 <0.001 −0.03 0.344 −0.07 0.100
Interleukin-6 0.01 0.785 0.10 0.009 −0.07 0.021 −0.11 0.013
Phosphate* −0.10 0.008 0.02 0.630 0.02 0.666 0.00 0.938
25-hydroxyvitamin D* −0.01 0.714 −0.02 0.675 −0.04 0.272 0.04 0.352
*

Pearson correlation coefficients for continuous variables, and means ± standard deviations for categorical variables compared using linear regression.

Only available for Health ABC Cohort