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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Jan;18(1):148–154. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0415

Table 2.

Risk of prostate cancer by baseline total body BMD quartiles in the MrOS cohort

Total body BMD
(g/cm2)
Quartile Range
(g/cm2)
Number at risk
(events)
Incidence rate
(cases per 1000 person-years)
Unadjusted hazard ratio
(95% CI)
Age-adjusted hazard ratio
(95% CI)
Multivariate hazard ratio
(95% CI) *
First Quartile 0.80–1.09 1142 (72) 12.3 1.00 1.00 1.00
Second Quartile 1.09–1.17 1142 (69) 11.7 0.95 (0.68–1.32) 0.94 (0.67–1.3) 0.91 (0.66–1.27)
Third Quartile 1.17–1.25 1143 (67) 11.4 0.92 (0.66–1.29) 0.90 (0.64–1.26) 0.90 (0.64–1.26)
Fourth Quartile 1.25–2.04 1142 (46) 7.7 0.63 § (0.44–0.91) 0.61 || (0.42–0.89) 0.59 || (0.40–0.86)
P-value for trend 0.02 0.01 0.007
HR per 1 SD 0.88 § 0.87 § 0.86 §
increase in BMD (0.77–1.00) (0.76–0.99) (0.75–0.98)
*

Adjusted for age, race, BMI, family history of prostate cancer, physical activity, statin use, and calcium intake

Total body BMD: SD= 0.12 g/cm2

§

P-value <0.05

||

P-value <0.01