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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Bone Miner Res. 2007 Feb;22(2):173–183. doi: 10.1359/jbmr.060806

Table 4.

Subgroup Analysis in Men and Women

Unweighted analyses
Weighted analyses
Bin Average rank prank Heterogeneity (restricted)* Average rank prank Heterogeneity (restricted)*
Men LS
7.2 96.60 0.008 − (−) 95.45 0.013 − (−)
6.5 95.60 0.010 No (no) 101.50 0.004 No (no)
15.2 94.40 0.013 − (no) 91.94 0.027 No (no)
6.4 94.40 0.013 No (++) 105.68 0.001 No (+)
5.3 94.10 0.013 No (no) 94.50 0.018 No (no)
12.6 92.20 0.019 No (no) 83.97 0.079 No (no)
6.6 89.20 0.031 No (no) 91.03 0.030 No (no)
7.3 88.70 0.034 − (no) 87.67 0.049 − (no)
9.1 88.40 0.036 No (no) 80.01 0.120 No (no)
Women LS
1.6 87.71 0.016 No (no) 90.01 0.018 No (no)
3.1 86.43 0.024 No (no) 94.38 0.008 No (no)
3.2 85.93 0.025 No (no) 94.81 0.007 No (no)
11.3 83.71 0.036 No (no) 89.18 0.022 No (no)
1.5 83.21 0.041 No (no) 78.19 0.115 No (no)
11.2 79.86 0.067 No (no) 85.23 0.042 No (no)
Men FN
12.3 91.40 0.021 No (no) 87.06 0.051 No (no)
22.1 90.90 0.023 No (no) 85.90 0.059 No (no)
9.4 89.90 0.028 No (no) 89.69 0.036 No (no)
2.8 88.00 0.037 No (no) 88.45 0.043 No (no)
3.2 86.80 0.045 No (no) 82.60 0.086 No (no)
Women FN
15.2 101.80 0.002 − (no) 97.63 0.009 No (no)
17.1 101.40 0.003 − (no) 100.59 0.004 − (no)
17.2 93.80 0.015 No (no) 87.64 0.050 No (no)
15.1 90.80 0.023 No (no) 85.36 0.067 − (no)
1.9 88.60 0.034 No (no) 84.89 0.076 No (no)
18.4 86.10 0.049 No (no) 75.73 0.187 No (no)
4.6 82.00 0.082 No (no) 88.20 0.047 No (no)
15.3 74.80 0.183 +++ (+++) 89.64 0.038 No (++)
*

For heterogeneity testing, significantly low heterogeneity is given by the minus sign and significantly high heterogeneity is given by the plus sign; the number of signs corresponds to how many of the three heterogeneity statistics give significant results.

FN, femoral neck; LS, lumbar spine.