Association of Bone Loss with the Upregulation of Survival-Related Genes and Concomitant Downregulation of Mammalian Target of Rapamycin and Osteoblast Differentiation-Related Genes in the Peripheral Blood of Late Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Women

Table 1

Average BMD values (±SD) in the examined postmenopausal osteoporotic women and healthy subjects.

	Healthy controls	-score	OP patients	-score
	( = 26)		( = 22)
Lumbar spine; L1–L4	1.052 ± 0.06	0.064 ± 0.62	0.712 ± 0.06	−3.07 ± 0.60	<0.001
Femoral neck	0.857 ± 0.06	0.064 ± 0.59	0.584 ± 0.08	−2.407 ± 0.71	<0.001
Trochanter	0.765 ± 0.11	0.633 ± 1.08	0.531 ± 0.07	−1.703 ± 0.74	<0.001
Intertrochanter	1.163 ± 0.10	0.525 ± 0.70	0.830 ± 0.16	−1.696 ± 1.05	<0.001
Ward triangle	0.727 ± 0.10	−0.042 ± 0.91	0.378 ± 0.07	−2.839 ± 1.24	<0.001
Total femur	1.156 ± 0.12	0.533 ± 0.70	0.700 ± 0.11	−1.853 ± 1.11	<0.001