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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoporos Int. 2020 Sep 24;32(4):715–725. doi: 10.1007/s00198-020-05640-5

Table 2.

Ranking of risk factors for FN BMD. (A) According to their marginal inclusion probability (MIP). (B) The best ten individual models according to their posterior probability (PP)

Risk factors MIP Model-averaged causal estimate
(A) According to their MIP
1 FI 0.32 0.08
2 T2D 0.265 0.012
3 FG 0.14 0.018
4 HCadjBMI 0.098 − 0.009
5 WCadjBMI 0.067 − 0.006
6 BMI 0.053 0.004
7 WHR 0.053 0.004
8 WMRadjBMI 0.038 0
9 WC 0.033 0
10 LDL cholesterol 0.032 − 0.001
Individual models Risk factors combination PP Causal estimate
(B) The best 10 individual models according to their PP
11 FI 0.251 0.253
1 T2D 0.21 0.047
10 FG 0.101 0.134
6 HCadjBMI 0.067 − 0.096
8 WCadjBMI 0.036 − 0.075
13 BMI 0.035 0.07
9 WHR 0.034 0.071
12 WMRadjBMI 0.023 0.023
2 HDL cholesterol 0.02 − 0.039
3 LDL cholesterol 0.02 − 0.042