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Published in final edited form as: Calcif Tissue Int. 2012 Oct 18;91(6):430–439. doi: 10.1007/s00223-012-9656-8

Table 4.

Pearson correlation coefficients between pQCT bone parameters and mean dietary intake of select bone related nutrients

	Calcium		Vitamin D		Vitamin C		Zinc		Iron

	4^th	6^th	4^th	6^th	4^th	6^th	4^th	6^th	4^th	6^th
Femur 4% sites
Trabecular Area, mm²	−0.15^*	0.07	−0.11	0.02	0.11	0.07	−0.09	0.01	−0.06	0.00
Periosteal Circ, mm	−0.16^*	0.05	−0.10	0.10	0.11	0.08	−0.08	0.00	−0.05	0.00
Femur 20% sites
Cortical Density, mg/mm	0.12	−0.02	0.09	−0.08	0.13	0.03	0.16^*	−0.05	0.10	−0.05
Periosteal Circ, mm	−0.09	0.02	−0.02	−0.04	0.17^*	0.07	0.03	−0.02	0.06	0.00
Endosteal Circ, mm	−0.09	0.04	−0.05	0.00	0.17^*	0.08	0.01	0.02	0.05	0.04
SSI, mm³	−0.03	−0.01	0.06	−0.11	0.18^*	0.02	0.09	−0.10	0.08	−0.07
Tibia 4% sites
Trabecular Area, mm²	−0.02	−0.01	0.00	−0.05	0.18^*	0.01	0.08	−0.02	0.07	−0.02
Periosteal Circ, mm	−0.03	−0.03	0.01	−0.07	0.19^†	0.02	0.07	−0.04	0.07	−0.04
Tibia 66% sites
Cortical Density, mg/mm	0.11	−0.05	0.12	−0.07	0.12	−0.03	0.15^*	−0.05	0.12	−0.05
Cortical Area, mm²	−0.07	−0.01	0.03	−0.09	0.15^*	0.02	0.05	−0.11	0.06	−0.08
^a SSI, mm³	−0.06	−0.01	0.04	−0.10	0.18^*	0.02	0.08	−0.11	0.08	−0.08

p < 0.05

^†

p < 0.01

SSI = strength-strain index (mm³)