Table 3.

Risk of osteoporosis and metabolic syndrome constitutive elements in study cohort

MetS constitutive elements	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval	p
Hyperglycaemia/T2DM	0.90	0.66–1.24	0.50
Hypertension	0.91	0.48–1.68	0.78
Low HDL cholesterol levels	1.14	0.60–2.14	0.72
Hypertriglyceridaemia	0.99	0.54–1.91	0.99
High waist circumference	0.60	0.47–0.80	< 0.01

Hyperglycaemia/T2DM: fasting serum glucose ≥ 5.6 mmol/L or drug treatment for T2DM; Hypertension: systolic blood pressure (BP) ≥ 130 mmHg and/or diastolic BP ≥ 85 mmHg or current antihypertensive drug treatment in a patient with a history of hypertension; Low HDL cholesterol levels: serum HDL cholesterol < 1.03 mmol/Lor drug treatment for dyslipidemia. Hypertriglyceridemia: serum triglycerides > 1.7 mmol/L or current drug treatment for elevated triglycerides; High waist circumference: waist circumference ≥ 102 cm; The MetS diagnosis was made in men who fulfilled any three of the previously exposed criteria [14]

MetS metabolic syndrome; T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus; HDL high-density lipoprotein