. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Kidney Int. 2014 Oct 29;87(3):593–601. doi: 10.1038/ki.2014.347

Table 2.

Bone histomorphometry in 24 dialysis patients undergoing bone biopsy.

	Value	Normal range
Turnover
Bone formation rate (BFR/BS) (µm³/um²/y) ^*	25.6 (8.0, 63.9)	8.0–73.4
Eroded surface (ES/BS) (%)	9.1 ± 1.0	0.5–4.3
Mineralization
Osteoid volume (OV/BV) (%)	4.5 ± 0.7	0.2–5.8
Osteoid thickness (O.Th) (µm)	8.9 ± 0.6	2.0–13.2
Osteoid surface (OS/BS) (%)	31.0 ± 3.2	4.3–37.0
Osteoid maturation time (OMT) (d)	12.1 (8.9, 14.9)	1.2–11.5
Mineralization lag time (MLT) (d) ^*	32.8 (20.4, 56.2)	2.3–63.8
Volume
Bone volume (BV/TV) (%)	32.0 ± 1.9	8.9–34.4
Trabecular number (Tb.N) (#/mm²)	2.1 ± 0.1	1.1–2.2
Trabecular separation (Tb.Sp) (µm)	347 ± 34	351–737

Indicates that the value is displayed as the median (interquartile range) due to non-normal distribution. All other values are displayed as mean ± SEM.