Table 2.

Differences among CP patients with normal bone mineral density, osteopenia or osteoporosis

	Normal (n=76)	Osteopenia (n=89)	Normal vs. Osteopenia P-value	Osteoporosis (n=46)	Normal vs. Osteoporosis P-value
Age (mean)	55 ± 12	59 ± 13	0.06	67 ± 9	0.0001
Female sex	17/76 (22%)	26/89 (29.2%)	0.37	26/46 (56.6%)	0.0001
Menopause	10 / 14 (71.4%)	22/26 (84.6%)	0.41	25/25 (100%)	0.012
Body mass index (mean)	25 ± 4	24 ± 3	0.05	22 ± 3	0.001
Pathological fractures	2/68 (2.9%)	8/86 (9.3%)	0.18	3/42 (7.1%)	0.36
Length of disease (mean)	81 ± 97	76 ± 79	0.76	98 ± 99	0.38
Advanced-marked disease	14/67 (20.8%)	17/85 (20%)	1	4 /41(9.7%)	0.18
Diabetes	35/76 (46%)	27/87 (31%)	0.05	15/45 (33.3%)	0.18
FE < 200 mcg/g > 100 mcg/g	37/63 (58.7%)	44/76 (57.9%)	1	20/40 (50%)	0.42
FE < 100 mcg/g	25/63 (39.6%)	34/76 (44.7%)	0.6	13/40 (32.5%)	0.53
PERT	37/76 (48.6%)	54/89 (60.6%)	0.15	25/45 (55%)	0.57
Active smoking	40/76 (52%)	42/87 (48.2%)	0.63	22/44 (50%)	0.85
Pack years > 20	30/45 (66%)	32/46 (69.5%)	0.82	18/23 (78%)	0.40
Alcoholic aetiology	36/76 (47.3%)	37/87 (42.5%)	0.63	18/45 (40%)	0.45
Vitamin D deficiency ( < 20 ng/ml)	43/74 (58.1%)	50/87 (57.5%)	1	22/43 (51.2%)	0.56
Vitamin D levels ng/ml (mean)	19 ± 12	19 ± 12	0.86	23.1 ± 14	0.13
Vitamin K deficiency ( < 0.2 ng/ml)	20/65 (30.7%)	23/77 (29.8%)	1	13/36 (36.1%)	0.66
Vitamin K levels ng/ml (mean)	0.57 ± 0.58	0.79 ± 1.18	0.17	0.44 ± 0.47	0.26
Mg levels mg/dl (mean)	1.82 ± 0.39	1.77 ± 0.44	0.49	1.84 ± 0.48	0.78
Mg deficiency	9/66 (13.6%)	14/76 (18.4%)	0.49	6/38 (15.7%)	0.77
Ca levels mg/dl (mean)	8.78 ± 1.77	9.2 ± 1.96	0.92	9.28 ± 1.35	0.52
Calcium deficiency	9/69 (13%)	10/83 (12%)	1	5/43 (11.6%)	1
PTH levels pg/ml (mean)	43 ± 16	50 ± 23	0.06	70 ± 62	0.002
PTH above normal	4/60 (6.6%)	15/79 (18.9%)	0.04	13/36 (36%)	0.001
CRP levels mg/dl (mean)	6.4 ± 16	3 ± 6	0.15	2.46 ± 4	0.29
CRP above normal	28/44 (63.6%)	32/52 (61.5%)	1	10/19 (52.6%)	0.57

Data are presented as rate or as mean ( ± SD)