. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Calcif Tissue Int. 2016 Nov 10;100(1):20–28. doi: 10.1007/s00223-016-0205-8

Table 2.

Femoral structural and mechanical properties.

		Standard Chow	Fructose	High-Fat
Cortical	Total cortical area [mm²]	0.95±0.04	0.95±0.05	0.95±0.05
	Cortical bone volume fraction [-]	0.85±0.01	0.84±0.02	0.81±0.02^#^†
	Cortical thickness [mm]	0.14±0.01	0.14±0.01	0.13±0.01^#^†
	Tissue mineral density [mg HA/ccm]	1152±8	1146±12	1126±11^#^†
	Elastic Modulus [GPa]	23.5±4.3	20.9±6.0	26.7±2.9^†
	Hardness [GPa]	1.1±0.2	1.0±0.2	1.2±0.2

Trabecular	Trabecular bone volume fraction [-]	0.13±0.03	0.12±0.02	0.11±0.02^#^†
	Connectivity Density [1/mm³]	120±35	108±29	95±30
	SMI [-]	2.2±0.3	2.2±0.3	2.5±0.2^#^†
	Trabecular Number [1/mm]	4.6±0.4	4.4±0.3	4.3±0.4
	Trabecular thickness [mm]	0.044±0.002	0.045±0.002	0.044±0.002
	Trabecular separation [mm]	0.21±0.02	0.22±0.02	0.23±0.02
	Tissue mineral density [mg HA/ccm]	881±12.8	877±15.3	882±12.5

Values are mean±SD.

p< 0.05 HF vs. SC,

p< 0.05 CH vs SC,

^†

p< 0.05 HF vs. CH.