Table 3.

Correlation between pentosidine concentrations

		Pentosidine concentration						Skin AGE content
		Urine		Bone		Skin
		r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Pentosidine concentration	Serum (total)	0.290	0.066	−0.031	0.799	0.027	0.842	0.180	0.180
	male	0.181	0.447	−0.075	0.667	−0.001	0.995	0.289	0.121
	female	0.378	0.091	−0.023	0.898	0.211	0.271	0.136	0.500
	< 50 years	1.000	< 0.001	−0.638	0.035	−0.400	0.286	−0.300	0.433
	> = 50 years	0.162	0.333	−0.027	0.840	−0.009	0.954	0.131	0.375
	Urine (total)			0.355	0.026	0.409	0.002	0.304	0.060
	male			0.379	0.051	0.229	0.306	0.038	0.878
	female			0.346	0.033	0.482	0.005	0.435	0.056
	< 50 years			−0.064	0.820	0.335	0.263	−0.200	0.747
	> = 50 years			0.122	0.399	0.252	0.112	0.205	0.245
	Bone (total)					0.422	< 0.001	0.216	0.104
	male					0.406	0.013	0.215	0.255
	female					0.544	< 0.001	0.320	0.097
	< 50 years					0.696	< 0.001	0.427	0.190
	> = 50 years					0.095	0.462	0.121	0.416
	Skin (total)							0.314	0.008
	male							0.169	0.419
	female							0.416	0.043
	< 50 years							0.733	0.025
	> = 50 years							0.119	0.466