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Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2010 Dec 2;22(10):2699–2708. doi: 10.1007/s00198-010-1505-x

Table 2. Unadjusted Spearman's rank correlation coefficients between selected independent variables and areal BMD.

	Age	Weight	Race	FSH	Bio E2	BioT	LS BMD	FN BMD	TH BMD	DR BMD
Age							−0.10	−0.24^*	−0.20^*	−0.34^***
Weight	−0.01						0.60^***	0.58^***	0.58^***	0.29^**
Race	0.17	−0.35^**					−0.35^***	−0.44^***	−0.38^***	−0.42^***
FSH	−0.02	−0.57^***	0.36^***				−0.39^***	−0.36^***	−0.38^***	−0.21^*
Bio E2	−0.05	0.42^***	−0.21^*	−0.50^***			0.25^**	0.30^**	0.29^**	0.21^*
Bio T	0.16	0.25^**	−0.11	−0.17	0.35^***		0.28^**	0.24^*	0.23^*	0.23^*
LH	−0.06	−0.51^***	0.32^***	0.81^***	−0.30^**	−0.11	−0.39^***	−0.35^***	−0.34^***	−0.17

BMD bone mineral density, LS lumbar spine, FN femoral neck, TH total hip, DR distal radius

p<0.05;

^**

p<0.01;

^***

p<0.001