. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 2.

Published in final edited form as: J Clin Densitom. 2014 Aug 13;18(3):408–418. doi: 10.1016/j.jocd.2014.07.003

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics at Baseline Between Fractured and Nonfractured Groups

Variable	No fractures		History of fractures		p Value for group comparison
Variable	Mean^a/median^b	SD^a/Q1–Q3^b	Mean^a/median^b	SD^a/Q1–Q3^b	p Value for group comparison
Age (yr)^a	71	8	76	10	0.014
BMI (kg/m²)^a	27.31	5.80	27.72	5.71	0.727
Weight (kg)^a	67.7	18.4	70.3	13.4	0.416
Height (m)^a	1.56	0.26	1.60	0.07	0.351
Calcium (yr)^b	5.0	0.0–12.0	5.5	0.0–14.0	0.712
Vitamin D₃ (yr)^b	2.8	0.0–12.0	5.5	1.5–12.0	0.408
Antiresorptives (yr)^b	0.0	0.0–0.0	0.0	0.0–5.0	0.036

Note: Anthropometrics and medication use descriptive statistics for study participants completing at least baseline and follow-up scans for any of the imaging modalities are displayed in the table.

Abbr: BMI, body mass index; SD, standard deviation.

Parametric variable described using mean and SDs.

Nonparametric variable characterized by median and first (Q1) and third (Q3) quartiles.