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. 2011 May 26;8(6):1817–1846. doi: 10.3390/ijerph8061817

Table 1.

Gains in bone mineral content and bone mineral density, according to nutritional status and sex.


	Boys		Girls
	Eutrophic (n = 13)	Undernourished (n = 12)	Eutrophic (n = 17)	Undernourished (n = 8)
Bone mineral content
Arms (g)	46.44 ± 16.90	21.63 ± 9.99 ^**	48.77 ± 21.31	30.74 ± 13.40 ^*
Legs (g)	154.03 ± 45.03	35.65 ± 165.06 ^*	127.17 ± 42.79	73.83 ± 18.05 ^**
Trunk (g)	135.34 ± 103.64	67.62 ± 22.79 ^*	169.14 ± 66.95	82.43 ± 75.06 ^*
Total (g)	557.86 ± 206.66	275.34 ± 107.69 ^**	570.87 ± 211.26	330.85 ± 133.78 ^*
Bone mineral density
Arms (g/cm²)	0.054 ± 0.047	0.027 ± 0.026	0.067 ± 0.042	0.037 ± 0.042
Legs (g/cm²)	0.209 ± 0.080	0.108 ± 0.057 ^*	0.184 ± 0.062	0.094 ± 0.030 ^**
Total (g/cm²)	0.099 ± 0.059	0.038 ± 0.043 ^*	0.114 ± 0.058	0.051 ± 0.048^*

Values expressed are mean ± standard deviation;

^*

Significantly different from the eutrophic group, p < 0.05;

^**

Significantly different from the eutrophic group, p < 0.001.