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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 14.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2009 Oct 22;46(1):208–216. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2009.10.017

Table 2.

Participant descriptives, Means (SD)

Males (n = 1944) Females (n = 3229)
Age (years) 13.3 (2.6) 12.58 (2.6)
Height (cm) 155.4 (11.5) 155.1 (15.5)
Weight (kg) 48.5 (13.0) 48.2 (16.0)
Whole body BMC (g) 1686.9 (511.2) 1689.9 (675.1)
Total proximal femur BMC (g) 25.9 (8.6) 29.2 (12.4)
Femoral neck BMC (g) 3.7 (1.0) 4.1 (1.2)
Lumbar spine BMC (g) 42.7 (14.7) 41.4 (19.2)
Ethnicity (W/A/H/B) (%) 25/8/2/2 50/8/2/3

Key: BMC – Bone mineral content; n = number of observation. W – White; A – Asian; H – Hispanic; B – Black.