A Study on Bone Mass in Elderly Chinese Foot-Binding Women

Table 6

Lumbar spine and hip DXA data analysis between normal foot group (𝑛=46) and foot-binding group (𝑛=56).

	Normal foot group	Foot-binding group	𝑇	𝑃
BMC g
L1	6.870 ± 1.492	6.463 ± 1.576	−1.320	0.19
L2	7.717 ± 1.875	7.685 ± 1.763	−0.088	0.93
L3	9.247 ± 2.251	9.567 ± 2.255	0.708	0.48
L4	10.833 ± 2.469	10.951 ± 2.426	0.24	0.811
L1–L4	34.668 ± 7.307	34.401 ± 7.306	−0.182	0.856
BA cm^2
L1	9.768 ± 1.211	10.170 ± 1.217	1.653	0.101
L2	10.757 ± 1.446	11.329 ± 1.588	1.87	0.064
L3	12.049 ± 1.616	12.712 ± 1.532	2.109	0.037
L4	13.521 ± 1.999	13.809 ± 1.894	0.742	0.46
L1–L4	46.095 ± 4.940	47.735 ± 5.472	1.563	0.121
BMD g/cm^2
L1	0.702 ± 0.119	0.631 ± 0.113	−0.306	0.003
L2	0.713 ± 0.126	0.676 ± 0.114	−1.548	0.125
L3	0.764 ± 0.134	0.749 ± 0.135	−0.546	0.586
L4	0.805 ± 0.156	0.792 ± 0.137	−0.445	0.658
L1–L4	0.750 ± 0.126	0.718 ± 0.117	−1.317	0.191
Femoral neck	0.664 ± 0.092	0.647 ± 0.085	−0.939	0.35
Rehabilitation	0.737 ± 0.118	0.709 ± 0.095	−1.348	0.181
𝑇 value (L1–L4)	−3.02 ± 1.01	−3.257 ± 0.96	−1.206	0.231
𝑇 value (femoral neck)	−1.615 ± 0.96	−1.870 ± 0.79	−1.472	0.144