Lack of Association between Pulse Steroid Therapy and Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Table 2

Comparisons of bone mineral density measurements (mean ± SD) at lumbar and femoral sites between MS patients and controls.

	Female			Male
	MS patients	Controls		MS patients	Controls
Lumbar spine
BMD	0.98 ± 0.15	1 ± 0.13	0.27	0.99 ± 0.17	1.00 ± 0.13	0.81
score	−0.56 ± 1.37	−0.40 ± 1.11	0.47	−0.81 ± 1.51	−0.77 ± 0.87	0.89
score	−0.33 ± 1.37	0.06 ± 1.17	0.07	−0.68 ± 1.50	−0.57 ± 0.85	0.69
Femoral neck
BMD	0.81 ± 0.17	0.87 ± 0.14	0.021	0.89 ± 0.23	0.92 ± 0.14	0.48
score	−0.82 ± 1.59	−0.24 ± 1.35	<0.001	−0.67 ± 1.69	0.69 ± 1.53	<0.001
score	−0.48 ± 1.63	0.45 ± 1.43	<0.001	−0.05 ± 1.59	0.79 ± 1.46	0.018
Femoral trochanter
BMD	0.64 ± 0.13	0.68 ± 0.10	<0.001	0.74 ± 0.16	0.71 ± 0.15	0.46
score	−1.02 ± 1.20	−0.47 ± 1.15	0.005	−0.76 ± 1.29	0.32 ± 1.53	<0.001
score	−0.87 ± 1.19	0.15 ± 1.15	<0.001	−0.49 ± 1.23	0.50 ± 1.41	<0.001

SD: standard deviation. values are from Student’s -test and values <0.05 are statistically significant.