. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 24.

Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2010 Dec 9;22(4):1079–1090. doi: 10.1007/s00198-010-1296-0

Table 2.

Participant Characteristics (Mean and Standard Deviation)

	Discovery Sample N=862	Validation Sample N=1156	Pooled Sample (Discovery + Validation) N=2018
Age	74 (5.8)	74 (6.0)	74 (5.9)
Weight (kg)	85.3 (14.1)	82.9 (12.5)^*	83.9 (13.3)
Height (cm)	173.6 (6.7)	174.9 (6.7) ^*	174.3 (6.7)
BMI	28.3 (4.1)	27.1 (3.6)^*	27.6 (3.9)
Vertebral Trabecular vBMD (g/cm3)	0.118 (0.039)	0.108 (0.038)^*	0.112 (0.039)
Vertebral CSA (cm2)	13.04 (2.01)	12.67 (1.86)^*	12.83 (1.94)

Significant difference between discovery and validation sample (p<0.001)