Table 3.
Dairy Ca intake (mg/d) | |||||||
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Fracture status | n | Mean | sd | Median | Minimum | Maximum | P value* |
Fractures | 176 | 390·5 | 256·5 | 336·4† | 3·6 | 1922·9 | 0·0254 |
No fractures | 450 | 438·1 | 273·6 | 395·4† | 15·5 | 1915·1 |
*Differences assessed by the Mann–Whitney U test.
†Variable was not normally distributed (verified by the Shapiro–Wilk test; P ≤ 0·05).