. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 23.

Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2011 Apr 6;23(2):781–787. doi: 10.1007/s00198-011-1626-x

Table 1.

Basic characteristics of the study subjects

Trait	Caucasian sample 1	Caucasian sample 2	Chinese sample
Number	2,286	1,000	1,627
Age (years)	51.37 (13.76)	50.23 (18.24)	34.49 (13.24)
Weight (kg)	75.27 (17.54)	80.16 (17.79)	60.12 (10.48)
Height (cm)	166.35 (8.47)	170.83 (9.74)	164.25 (8.16)
Female/male	1727/558	501/499	825/802
Hip BMD (g/cm²)	0.968 (0.175)	0.973 (0.156)	0.920 (0.134)
Spine BMD (g/cm²)	1.025 (0.157)	1.032 (0.164)	0.947 (0.127)

Data are shown as mean (standard deviation, SD).