. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Feb 22.

Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2006 May 18;39(4):915–921. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2006.03.014

Table 3.

Independent factors of total and cortical bone area in older men and women

	Dependent variable tCSA				Dependent variable cCSA
	Men		Women		Men		Women
	b + SE	P	b + SE	P	b + SE	P	b + SE	P
Age (years)	1.76 ± 0.54	0.0011	−0.17 ± 0.36	0.63	1.41 ± 0.45	0.0020	−1.57 ± 0.34	<0.0001
Education (years)			−1.98 ± 0.83	0.0197	−1.84 ± 0.78
BMI (kg/m²)			1.41 ± 0.56	0.0120			1.27 ± 0.56	0.0253
CSMA (cm²)	1.6 ± 0.3	<0.0001	2.0 ± 0.1	<0.001	1.8 ± 0.2	<.0001	2.1 ± 0.2	<0.0001
Serum 25(OH)-vitamin D (nmol/l)			11.7 ± 4.3	0.0067			7.8 ± 2.4	0.0009
TNF-alpha (pg/ml)	10.5 ± 4.1	0.0118			8.20 ± 3.40	0.0165

Parsimonious models obtained by backward selection method from initial models including all covariates reported in the table and WHR, ankle extension strength, current physical activity, calcium intake, creatinine clearance, DHEAS, PTH, Bio-T, IL-6.