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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone Marrow Transplant. 2013 Oct 14;49(2):258–263. doi: 10.1038/bmt.2013.156

Table 3.

DXA measures.

Characteristic Controls Age (yr) at HCT Pairwise P values

<10 [A] 10–18 [B] >18 [C] A vs B A vs C B vs C
n 92 76 51 24 - - -
Percent fat mass 26.4±10.7 29.2±10.1* 35.3±9.3*** 33.4±11.0** 0.0013 0.16 0.43
Total fat massa 17.8±1.1 17.5±1.3 24.8±2.0** 23.4±2.2* 0.0007 0.03 0.65
Lean body massa 44.9±0.7 43.8±0.7 42.3±1.1 43.9±1.4 0.25 0.91 0.37
TBMD Z-score ≤ −1 6 (7) 11 (15) 9 (18)* 2 (8) 0.63 0.43 0.29
LBMD Z-score ≤ −1 13 (14) 21 (28)* 8 (16) 4 (17) 0.13 0.26 0.97

Data are presented as average ± SD, adjusted average ± SE for adjusted characteristics, or n (%).

a

expressed in kg, adjusted for height (cm),

*

P <0.05,

**

P <0.01,

***

P <0.001 indicate significant difference between a given age-at-HCT group and controls. The P values are provided for the purposes of exploratory comparisons.