. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2014 Dec 3;26(3):977–985. doi: 10.1007/s00198-014-2978-9

Table 1.

Femoral diaphysis morphology and calculated material-level biomechanical properties

	Normal	High turnover CKD	Low turnover CKD
Bone diameter, mm	3.7 ± 0.2	3.6 ± 0.2	3.7 ± 0.1
Porosity, %	0.1 ± 0.1	4.1 ± 5.4 ^*	0.5 ± 0.2 ^*
Cross-sectional moment of inertia, mm⁴	10.1 ± 1.5	8.56 ± 0.9 ^*	11.1 ± 1.4
Ultimate stress, MPa	180 ± 17	140 ± 25 ^*	176 ± 27
Modulus, MPa	6777 ± 831	6609 ± 750	6701 ± 880
Toughness, MJ/m³	5.3 ± 1.1	4.2 ± 1.8	3.9 ± 0.7 ^*

Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation.

p < 0.05 versus normal controls.