Table 1.

Study characteristics by groups at baseline

Variable	Control (n = 31) Mean ± SD	Experimenta (n = 32) Mean ± SD
Age (years)	64.05 ± 3.35	64.11 ± 3.81
Height (cm)	155.77 ± 4.14	155.59 ± 4.38
Weight (kg)	78.73 ± 7.52	81.81 ± 8.03
BMI (kg/m2)	32.53 ± 2.01	33.72 ± 3.15
Body fat (%)	43.60 ± 2.66	46.29 ± 3.42
BMC (gr)	2.13 ± 0.50	2.24 ± 0.38
BMD (gr/cm2)	1.005 ± 0.450	0.929 ± 0.245
FRAX	4.72 ± 0.18	4.68 ± 0.19
Vitamin D	43.02 ± 20.97	38.28 ± 21.32
Alkaline phosphatase (IU/L)	139.23 ± 28.22	165.93 ± 42.46
CTX-I (ng/ml)	0.526 ± 0.097	0.543 ± 0.081

BMI body mass index, BMC bone mass content, BMD bone mass density, FRAX Fracture risk assessment tool, CTX-I C-telopeptides of type I collagen