Table 4. Correlation of serum GDF11 levels with bone turnover markers.
| Bone turnover markers | GDF11 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted | Age and BMI adjusted | |
| BAP | −0.306* | −0.258* |
| NTX | 0.024 | 0.081 |
BAP, bone alkaline phosphatase; BMI, body mass index; GDF11, Growth Differentiation Factor 11; NTX, Cross-linked N-telopeptides of type I collagen.
Pearson’s correlation coefficients and partial correlation coefficients after adjusting for age and BMI are presented.
*P<0.05.