. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 14.

Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2009 Jun 25;21(4):619–625. doi: 10.1007/s00198-009-0988-9

Table 2.

Predictor variables of cortical porosity (from linear regression analysis)

	Estimate	Standard error	P value
fBMD	−157.49	52.36	0.005
Age >50 years	−8.37	2.18	0.0005
HD	−25.44	8.40	0.005
fBMD/HD	32.48	12.09	0.01

fBMD femoral bone mineral density, HD hemodialysis duration, fBMD/HD interaction term between femoral bone mineral density and hemodialysis duration