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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016 Jul 29;101(10):3827–3837. doi: 10.1210/jc.2016-1828

Table 4.

Percentage difference in bone outcomes per 10 years of HRT use, unadjusted, and then adjusted for type of menopause, and additionally adjusted for current height (m) and weight (kg)

Unadjusted Model 2 Adjusted for type of menopause Model 3 Adjusted for type of menopause, height and weight
% diff 95% CI p-value % diff 95% CI p-value % diff 95% CI p-value
Diaphysis CSA (n=603) 1.9 -0.4, 4.2 .1 1.8 -0.6, 4.2 .1 2.4 0.3, 4.5 .03
Medullary CSA (n=602) -6.5 -12.2, -0.7 .03 -5.7 -11.7, 0.2 .06 -5.5 -11.4, 0.4 .07
Total vBMD (n=597) 3.3 -0.3, 6.8 .07 2.3 -1.3, 6 .2 3.0 -0.6, 6.7 .1
Trabecular vBMD (n=596) 4.0 -0.3, 8.3 .07 2.9 -1.6, 7.3 .2 3.8 -0.6, 8.2 .09
Cortical vBMD (n=604) 0.9 0.4, 1.5 .001 0.9 0.3, 1.5 .003 0.9 0.3, 1.5 .002
Polar SSI (n=604) 6.0 2.6, 9.3 <.001 5.4 1.9, 8.9 .003 6.3 3.1, 9.4 <.001
Spine L1-L4 aBMD (n=747) 4.0 1.4, 6.5 .002
  Ceased naturally 5.3 2.1,8.5 .001 6.6 3.6,9.7 <.001
  Ceased surgically -1.4 -6.1,3.2 .5 0.9 -3.5,5.4 .7
Hip aBMD (n=742) 1.8 -0.4, 3.9 .1 0.7 -1.5, 3 .5 2.8 0.8, 4.7 .007

p-value=.02 for the interaction between type of menopause and length of HRT