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Published in final edited form as: J Bone Miner Res. 2008 Oct;23(10):1601–1612. doi: 10.1359/JBMR.080504

Table 5.

Unadjusted/Univariate-Adjusted/Multivariable-Adjusted Spearman Correlation Coefficients Between Hormonal Variables, Bone Formation Markers, and Bone Resorption Markers With Aortic Calcification per 2.5-mm CT Slice in Rochester, MN, Men Combined and Stratified by Age

	All men			<50 yr			≥50 yr
	U	A	A/B/C	U	A	A/B/C	U	A	A/B/C
U, unadjusted; A, age adjusted; A/B/C, age, BMI, cigarette smoking status (ever) adjusted.
Hormonal variables
Bio E2 (pg/ml)	-0.41^*	0.02	-0.00	-0.11	-0.03	-0.12	-0.32^*	-0.02	-0.00
Bio T (ng/dl)	-0.60^*	-0.09	-0.01	-0.19^†	-0.10	-0.02	-0.42^*	-0.09	-0.06
PTH (pM)	0.19^‡	-0.05	-0.08	0.06	-0.03	-0.09	0.01	-0.10	-0.10
25-Hydroxyvitamin D (ng/ml)	-0.04	-0.04	0.02	-0.19^†	-0.19^†	-0.07	0.02	0.10	0.10
1,25-Dihydroxy vitamin D (pg/ml)	-0.18^‡	0.02	0.06	-0.10	-0.11	0.04	-0.08	0.16^†	0.15^†
IGF-1 (ng/ml)	-0.47^*	-0.11^†	-0.11	-0.20^†	-0.13	-0.08	-0.35^*	-0.11	-0.11
IGFBP-3 (ng/ml)	-0.41^*	-0.05	-0.08	-0.14	-0.08	-0.17	-0.35^*	-0.09	-0.10
Bone formation markers
Bone alkaline phosphatase (U/liter)	-0.06	0.01	-0.01	0.08	0.07	0.01	-0.04	-0.07	-0.09
Osteocalcin (ng/ml)	-0.30^*	-0.13^†	-0.05	-0.27^‡	-0.22^†	-0.11	-0.08	-0.14	-0.13
PINP (μg/liter)	-0.38^*	-0.07	-0.06	-0.19^†	-0.13	-0.11	-0.18^†	-0.14	-0.13
Bone resorption markers
Serum CTX (ng/ml)	-0.27^*	-0.04	0.00	-0.17	-0.12	-0.02	-0.08	-0.07	-0.07
Urine NTX (nM GF)	-0.07	-0.11	-0.09	-0.12	-0.10	-0.05	-0.02	-0.20^‡	-0.21^‡

p < 0.001.

^†

p < 0.05.

^‡

p < 0.01.