Bone Mineral Density as a Predictor of Atherogenic Indexes of Cardiovascular Disease, Especially in Nonobese Adults

Table 3

Simple linear regression for the data analysis: correlation between possible confounding parameters and BMDs by simple regression analysis.

	L-spine BMD		Right neck BMD		Right total BMD		Left neck BMD		Left total BMD
	Age	-0.118	<0.001	-0.335	<0.001	-0.151	<0.001	-0.328	<0.001	-0.131	<0.001
Sex (, )	0.321	<0.001	0.318	<0.001	0.431	<0.001	0.323	<0.001	0.427	<0.001
BMI	0.327	<0.001	0.336	<0.001	0.380	<0.001	0.343	<0.001	0.395	<0.001
SBP	0.076	<0.001	0.024	0.166	0.134	<0.001	0.026	0.133	0.130	<0.001
Glucose	0.059	0.001	-0.017	0.342	0.037	0.034	-0.004	0.801	0.052	0.003
Cre	0.161	<0.001	0.105	<0.001	0.179	<0.001	0.117	<0.001	0.180	<0.001
Hb	0.183	<0.001	0.248	<0.001	0.303	<0.001	0.252	<0.001	0.291	<0.001
Smoking	0.076	<0.001	0.115	<0.001	0.081	<0.001	0.110	<0.001	0.073	<0.001
Exercise	0.022	0.214	-0.013	0.460	0.021	0.228	-0.013	0.462	0.035	0.043
Vegetarian	-0.164	<0.001	-0.156	<0.001	-0.123	<0.001	-0.170	<0.001	-0.117	<0.001

Values in bold represent significant values (), and values in italic represent negative correlation. BMI: body mass index; SBP: systolic blood pressure; Cre: creatinine; Hb: hemoglobin.