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Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2014 Jan 2;62(1):141–146. doi: 10.1111/jgs.12603

Table 2.

Age and Multivariate Adjusted Bone Mineral Density (BMD) and Grip strength across Blood Lead Quartiles

Characteristics	Blood Lead concentration (μg/dl) quartiles
Characteristics	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	p-trend
Bone Mineral Density
Femoral neck
Age adjusted	0.78 (0.74, 0.79)	0.80 (0.78, 0.82)	0.76 (0.73,0.79)	0.74 (0.71,0.77)	<.001
Multivariate adjusted^*	0.77 (0.75,0.79)	0.80 (0.78,0.82)	0.76 (0.73,0.79)	0.73 (0.70,0.76)	<.001
Total hip
Age adjusted	0.96 (0.93, 0.98)	0.97 (0.95,0.99)	0.92 (0.95, 0.99)	0.92 (0.88, 0.96)	<.001
Multivariate adjusted^*	0.95 (0.93, 0.98)	0.98 (0.96,0.99)	0.92 (0.89, 0.95)	0.91 (0.88, 0.95)	.004
Grip strength, average of right and left, Kg
Age adjusted	34.9 (33.6, 36.3)	35.7 (34.5, 36.7)	33.9 (32.3, 35.6)	33.4 (31.4, 35.3)	<.001
Multivariate adjusted^*	34.9 (33.6, 36.3)	35.7 (34.6, 36.8)	34.0 (32.4, 35.6)	33.4 (31.5, 35.4)	.148

Education, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index