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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2019 Apr 1;90(6):789–797. doi: 10.1111/cen.13960

TABLE 3.

Associations between disease history and bone mineral density (BMD) or estimated hip strength in men with eating disorders

PA spine BMD
Z-score		 Total hip BMD
Z-score		 Femoral neck
BMD Z-score		 Intertrochanteric
section modulus
(cm3)		 Narrow neck
section modulus
(cm3)		 Femoral shaft
section modulus
(cm3)		 Intertrochanteric
buckling ratio		 Narrow neck
buckling ratio		 Femoral shaft
buckling ratio
R P R P R P R P R P R P R P R P R P
Duration of illness (patient report, y) −0.53 0.0002a −0.58 <0.0001a −0.51 0.0003a −0.47 0.0009a −0.54 0.0001a −0.37 0.01a 0.59 <0.0001a 0.55 <0.0001a 0.57 0.001a
Highest past BMI
(kg/m2)		 0.60 <0.0001a 0.55 <0.0001a 0.54 <0.0001a 0.70 <0.0001a 0.60 <0.0001a 0.75 <0.0001a −0.32   0.02 −0.38   0.007 −0.25 0.08a
Lowest past BMI
(kg/m2)		 0.57 <0.0001 0.44 0.002 0.43 0.003 0.53 0.0002 0.46 0.001 0.59 <0.0001a −0.22   0.15 −0.23   0.12 0.08 0.6
a

Remained significant after controlling for BMI at P ≤ 0.05.