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Table 3.

Correlation between age at menarche and BMI with LS, TF, and FN BMD.

Variable	Bone Region	G1		G2		G3
Variable	Bone Region	r	p	r	p	r	p
Age at menarche	FN	−0.8	0.001 *	−0.1	0.5	−0.3	0.1 ^†
Age at menarche	TF	−0.8	0.006 *	−0.3	0.2	−0.1	0.4 ^†
BMI	LS	−0.2	0.50	0.6	0.01 *	0.1	0.4 ^†
BMI	FN	−0.3	0.40	0.6	0.008 *	0.1	0.5 ^†
BMI	TF	−0.02	0.91	0.7	0.004 *	0.4	0.1 ^†

LS: lumbar spine; FN: femoral neck; TF: total femur. G1: nulliparous women; G2: mothers 12 years ago; G3: nulliparous 12 years ago but now mothers. ^† Spearman, non-parametric variables; * Correlations are significant at p ≤ 0.05.