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Table 1 Baseline characteristics, scintigraphy results and bone turnover markers of participants (n = 22).

From: Bone turnover markers are correlated with total skeletal uptake of 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate (99mTc-MDP)

  Median (inter quartile range) Correlations with TSU of 99mTc-MDP
   r p
Anthropometry    
Age (years) 65 (59 – 73) 0.06 0.79
Height (cm) 162 (158 – 167) 0.03 0.90
Weight (kg) 65 (60 – 79) -0.08 0.071
BMI (kg/m2) 25.4 (22.8 – 29.1) -0.18 0.43
Bone mass    
Total body BMC (g) 2075 (1933 – 2208) -0.23 0.30
Total body BMD (g/cm2) 1.02 (0.97 – 1.08) -0.36 0.10
Scintigraphy    
Total skeletal uptake (%) 22.9 (18.8 – 27.9) - -
Bone Formation markers    
S-Bone ALP (U/L) 23.0 (17.0 – 28.0) 0.66 < 0.001
S-Total OC (μg/L) 5.8 (5.0 – 8.5) 0.72 < 0.001
S-OC(1–49) (μg/L) 3.0 (2.2 – 5.0) 0.65 < 0.01
S-cOC (μg/L) 6.9 (5.4 – 9.1) 0.67 < 0.001
Bone resorption markers    
S-TRACP5b (U/L) 3.1 (2.5 – 3.9) 0.90 < 0.001
S-CTX-I (ng/L) 228 (173 – 326) 0.80 < 0.001
Urine osteocalcin    
U-Total OC/crea (μg/nmol) 28.3 (19.7 – 32.0) 0.52 0.013
U-Mid OC/crea (μg/nmol) 1.3 (0.9 – 2.0) 0.76 < 0.001
U-Long OC/crea (μg/nmol) 0.02 (0.01 – 0.04) 0.72 < 0.001
  1. Results are shown as median values (interquartile range). Spearman rank correlations (r values) to total skeletal uptake (TSU) of 99mTc-MDP are also given.
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