Influence of Environmental Factors and Relationships between Vanadium, Chromium, and Calcium in Human Bone

Table 4

The concentrations of V, Cr, and Ca in the cartilage, cortical bone, and spongy bone in patients consuming game meat (GM) and without this type of diet (NGM) (AM, arithmetic mean; SD, standard deviation; Med, median; CV, coefficient of variation in percent; , Mann-Whitney test; , level of significance; and NS, nonsignificant difference; V and Cr concentrations are expressed as mg/kg dm; Ca level is expressed as g/kg dm).

Parameter	V	Cr	Ca
NGM ()
Cartilage
AM ± SD	0.44 ± 0.29	0.46 ± 0.36	199.90 ± 84.82
Med	0.30	0.36	207.22
Range	0.20–1.40	0.14–1.57	57.20–387.78
CV	65.91	78.26	42.43
Cortical bone
AM ± SD	0.56 ± 0.24	0.72 ± 0.46	215.76 ± 89.60
Med	0.57	0.58	212.00
Range	0.19–1.05	0.18–1.91	79.70–469.20
CV	42.86	63.89	41.53
Spongy bone
AM ± SD	0.55 ± 0.30	0.75 ± 0.64	249.03 ± 96.34
Med	0.42	0.47	263.99
Range	0.23–1.28	0.18–2.36	60.18–435.92
CV	54.54	85.33	38.69
GM ()
Cartilage
AM ± SD	0.33 ± 0.06	0.39 ± 0.17	263.33 ± 63.10
Med	0.30	0.36	261.17
Range	0.28–0.46	0.22–0.77	150.00–369.08
CV	18.18	43.59	23.96
Cortical bone
AM ± SD	0.46 ± 0.14	0.49 ± 0.19	292.18 ± 92.65
Med	0.45	0.47	267.44
Range	0.31–0.65	0.22–0.77	171.26–439.91
CV	30.43	38.77	31.71
Spongy bone
AM ± SD	0.31 ± 0.08	0.31 ± 0.08	230.52 ± 75.31
Med	0.32	0.33	228.44
Range	0.23–0.47	0.20–0.42	135.89–386.01
CV	25.81	25.81	32.67
NGM versus GM
Cartilage
	NS	NS	51
			0.02
Cortical bone
	NS	NS	52
			0.04
Spongy bone
	54	46	NS
	0.03	0.01