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Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2008 Sep 19;20(5):703–714. doi: 10.1007/s00198-008-0743-7

Table 3.

Bone mineral density (BMD) over study period^*, mean (SD)

	BMD 1 (Baseline)	BMD 2	BMD 3	BMD 4	BMD 5
Lumbar Spine, n	n = 45	n = 36	n = 28	n = 17	n = 10
T-score/Z-score^† (SD)	−0.80 (1.10)	−0.91 (1.09)	−0.95 (0.94)	−1.08 (1.01)	−1.17 (1.26)
BMD, g/cm² (SD)	0.972 (0.12)	0.968 (0.12)	0.968 (0.11)	0.956 (0.11)	0.944 (1.14)
Proximal Femur^a, n	n = 41	n = 37	n = 29	n = 18	n = 10
T-score/Z-score^† (SD)	−0.57 (0.97)	−0.59 (1.02)	−0.71 (0.88)	−0.82 (0.89)	−0.92 (1.14)
BMD, g/cm² (SD)	0.902 (0.13)	0.898 (0.14)	0.888 (0.12)	0.869 (0.12)	0.857 (0.16)
Whole Body, n	n = 46	n = 36	n = 27	n = 18	n = 10
T-score/Z-score^† (SD)	−0.71 (1.11)	−0.50 (1.07)	−0.61 (1.13)	−0.65 (1.04)	−0.72 (1.25)
BMD, g/cm² (SD)	1.120 (0.97)	1.136 (0.11)	1.123 (0.11)	1.111 (0.10)	1.100 (0.11)

The mean follow-up time between first and last BMD examination was 4.03 years (SD 1.45)

^†

T-scores for participants over 19 years of age, and Z-scores for those under 19 years of age.

Average of left and right sides