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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2022 Aug 7;164:116515. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2022.116515

Table 4:

Associations of Impact Force (Load), Failure Load (Strength) and Load-to-strength Ratio with Bone Parameters (obtained via HR-pQCT) in Females with Obesity (OB) and Normal-weight Healthy Controls (HC)

Impact Force Failure Load Load-to-Strength Ratio
OB HC OB HC OB HC
R P-value R P-value R P-value R P-value R P-value R P-value
Total vBMD (mgHA/cm3) 0.09 0.63 −0.03 0.85 0.34 0.05 0.47 0.007 −0.27 0.13 −0.55 0.001
Trabecular vBMD (mgHA/cm3) 0.21 0.25 0.007 0.97 0.57 0.0005 0.55 0.001 −0.44 0.01 −0.66 <.0001
Cortical vBMD (mgHA/cm3) −0.05 0.80 −0.06 0.75 0.14 0.45 0.13 0.49 −0.18 0.32 −0.15 0.41
Total bone area (mm2) 0.09 0.63 0.45 0.01 0.47 0.008 0.36 0.04 −0.46 0.01 −0.21 0.25
Cortical thickness (mm) 0.08 0.67 0.11 0.54 0.39 0.03 0.39 0.03 −0.32 0.07 −0.31 0.08
Cortical area/Total area 0.14 0.47 −0.09 0.60 0.07 0.73 0.25 0.27 0.009 0.96 −0.21 0.26
Cortical porosity (%) 0.22 0.23 0.37 0.04 0.08 0.65 0.25 0.18 0.09 0.62 0.25 0.18

Bolded numbers denote significant p-values.