. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 29.

Published in final edited form as: J Osteoporos Phys Act. 2017 Nov 28;5(4):210. doi: 10.4172/2329-9509.1000210

Table 1.

Participant baseline characteristics (Presented as means ± SD or n (%). Note: DXA-acquired aBMD: Duel Energy X-ray Absorptiometry acquired areal Bone Mineral Density; OC: Osteocalcin; BALP: Bone Specific Alkaline Phosphatase; P1NP: Procollagen Type 1 N-Terminal Propeptide; CTX: C-Terminal Telopeptide of Type 1 Collagen)

	Diet only	Diet + Vest	Reference Ranges
	n=17	n=20	Reference Ranges
Age (years)	69.9 ± 2.6	70.3 ± 3.4
Female, n (%)	14 (82.4)	15 (75.0)
White, n (%)	13 (76.5)	16 (80.0)
Weight (kg)	93.8 ± 11.5	99.4 ± 10.3
Body Mass Index (kg/m²)	35.3 ± 3.0	35.3 ± 2.8
DXA-acquired aBMD (g/cm²)			0.85–1.25
Total Hip	0.94 ± 0.14	0.98 ± 0.13
Femoral Neck	0.74 ± 0.10	0.81 ± 0.12
Lumbar Spine	1.11 ± 0.19	1.16 ± 0.19
Biomarkers of Bone Turnover
OC (ng/mL)	24.7 ± 15.3	27.3 ± 21.5	0–64
BALP (μg/L)	15.5 ± 5.6	15.1 ± 5.2	7.4–25.4
P1NP (ng/mL)	4.3 ± 2.4	4.8 ± 1.4	1.2–3.9
CTX (ng/mL)	6.8 ± 2.0	5.7 ± 2.6	0.8–5.3