. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2014 May;46(5):982–989. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000195

Table 1.

Effects of low- and high-load resistance exercise (LRE, HRE) on densitometric and geometric properties of the mid-diaphysis femur as taken by ex vivo pQCT scans at study end (day 35).

	CC	LRE	HRE
Cortical vBMD (mg/cm³)	1445.20 ± 4.80	1458.97 ± 3.95^†	1457.15 ± 5.42
Cortical BMC (mg)	11.61 ± 0.20	12.93 ± 0.21^†	12.40 ± 0.24^†
Cortical Bone Area (mm²)	8.03 ± 0.14	8.86 ± 0.13^†	8.50 ± 0.15^†
CSMI (mm⁴)	21.30 ± 0.80	25.51 ± 0.87^†	23.58 ± 0.84

Values are group mean ± standard error of the mean.

^†

vs. CC (p<0.05).