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

values <0.05 are statistically significant.