Table 2. Mean ankle-brachial index (ABI), common carotid artery intima-media thickness (CCA-IMT), and internal carotid artery IMT (ICA-IMT) by sex-specific quartile of trabecular lumbar bone mineral density (vBMD), MESA, Abdominal Aortic Calcium Study, 2000-2005.

	WOMEN			MEN
	Model 1 *	Model 2 †	Model 3 ‡	Model 1 *	Model 2 †	Model 3 ‡
	n=904	n=868	n=807	n=929	n=898	n=884
	Mean±SD	Mean±SD	Mean±SD	Mean±SD	Mean±SD	Mean±SD
Mean ABI
vBMD Q1	1.09±0.007	1.08±0.008	1.08±0.009	1.12±0.008	1.11±0.008	1.11±0.008
vBMD Q2	1.10±0.007	1.09±0.007	1.09±0.008	1.14±0.007	1.13±0.008	1.13±0.008
vBMD Q3	1.08±0.007	1.08±0.007	1.08±0.008	1.15±0.007	1.15±0.008	1.15±0.008
vBMD Q4	1.10±0.007	1.09±0.008	1.09±0.009	1.14±0.007	1.13±0.008	1.14±0.008
p for ANCOVA	0.119	0.202	0.215	0.017	0.007	0.004
p for trend	0.828	0.928	0.976	0.041	0.017	0.009
Mean ICA-IMT § (mm)
vBMD Q1	0.90±0.03	0.97±0.04	0.98±0.04	1.01±0.03	1.04±0.03	1.05±0.03
vBMD Q2	0.86±0.03	0.89±0.03	0.91±0.03	0.95±0.03	0.96±0.03	0.97±0.03
vBMD Q3	0.87±0.03	0.89±0.03	0.91±0.03	0.96±0.03	0.99±0.03	0.98±0.03
vBMD Q4	0.86±0.03	0.89±0.03	0.89±0.03	0.91±0.03	0.93±0.03	0.93±0.03
p for ANCOVA	0.703	0.167	0.163	0.106	0.061	0.053
p for trend	0.462	0.106	0.071	0.033	0.023	0.015

^§Mean values are geometric means for ICA-IMT

^*Adjusted for age and race/ethnicity.

^†Adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, body mass index, total cholesterol, HDL, use of cholesterol medication, hypertension, diabetes, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, homocysteine, C-reactive protein, interleukin-6 and hormone therapy (women only)

^‡Adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, body mass index, total cholesterol, HDL, use of cholesterol medication, hypertension, diabetes, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, homocysteine, C-reactive protein, interleukin-6 and unordered quartiles of total testosterone, sex hormone binding globulin and estradiol. In women, these quartiles are specific for women taking and not taking supplemental estrogens.