Low Bone Turnover Markers in Young and Middle-Aged Male Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Table 2

Comparison of BTMs and PTH between diabetic patients and controls.

Variables	Patients with T2DM	Nondiabetic controls
PINP (ng/ml)	33.38 (22.53, 46.02)	41.33 (30.40, 48.51)	0.008
OC (ng/ml)	5.74 (4.92, 7.55)	7.14 (5.64, 9.18)	<0.001
β-CTX (ng/ml)	0.19 (0.12, 0.30)	0.20 (0.14, 0.27)	0.826
PTH (pg/ml)			0.001

T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus; PINP: procollagen type I N-terminal peptide; OC: osteocalcin; β-CTX: β-cross-linked C-telopeptide of type I collagen; PTH: parathyroid hormone. value < 0.05 was considered significant.