Research Article
Lack of Association between Pulse Steroid Therapy and Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
Table 3
Multiple regression analyses of BMD.
| | Lumbar spine | Femoral neck | Femoral trochanter | | Beta | | Beta | | Beta | |
| Male/female | −0.019 | 0.840 | 0.239 | 0.080 | 0.247 | 0.077 | Age | 0.118 | 0.252 | 0.240 | 0.016 | 0.141 | 0.161 | Disease duration | 0.037 | 0.737 | 0.020 | 0.852 | −0.087 | 0.418 | Smoking years | −0.192 | 0.051 | −0.223 | 0.019 | −0.191 | 0.049 | EDSS | −0.135 | 0.176 | −0.270 | 0.005 | −0.213 | 0.030 | Cumulative steroid dose | −0.063 | 0.638 | −0.127 | 0.327 | −0.073 | 0.581 | Relapse number | 0.065 | 0.645 | 0.092 | 0.497 | 0.097 | 0.484 |
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values <0.05 are statistically significant.
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