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Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2012 Jan 19;23(12):2775–2783. doi: 10.1007/s00198-012-1893-1

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

	Age range (years)^a
	30–39	40–49	50–59	60–69	70–79	80+
n	33	35	34	23	32	13
Height (m)	1.82 (0.09)	1.85 (0.08)	1.82 (0.09)	1.79 (0.09)	1.79 (0.09)	1.76 (0.07)^*
Mass (kg)	89.6 (17.4)	101.2 (17.1)^*	96.8 (22.2)	99.5 (25.5)	92.6 (14.8)	85.1 (14.3)
BMI (kg/m²)	27.0 (4.1)	29.4 (4.6)^*	28.9 (5.1)	30.7 (5.6)^†	28.8 (3.2)	27.4 (3.8)
Lean mass (kg)	60.6 (11.3)	65.1 (14.7)	61.6 (10.3)	57.6 (10.5)	55.2 (9.4)	49.9 (8.6)^*
Fat (%)	26.8 (5.9)	28.3 (4.2)	29.2 (5.5)	33.9 (5.6)^‡	33.4 (4.8)^‡	32.7 (4.2)^†
Whole-body aBMD (g/cm²)	1.32 (0.11)	1.35 (0.12)	1.36 (0.17)	1.25 (0.30)	1.27 (0.12)	1.25 (0.11)
Hip aBMD (g/cm²)	1.07 (0.15)	1.04 (0.11)	1.06 (0.18)	1.05 (0.14)	0.99 (0.14)^*	0.96 (0.09)^*

^a

Values indicate mean (SD), except for frequency data

^*

p <0.05 vs. age group 30–39 years

^†

p <0.01 vs. age group 30–39 years

^‡

p <0.001 vs. age group 30–39 years