Lower Limb Metaphyseal Bone Is Lost in Men with Coeliac Disease and Does Not Relate to Parathyroid Status

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the male coeliac patients and age matched healthy control subjects.

	Control		Coeliac
Age (yr)	133		28			ns
Weight (kg)	133		28		ns
Height (cm)	133		28		ns
BMI (kg/m^2)	133		28		ns
Serum Ca (mmol/L)	91		27		ns
Serum albumin (g/L)	131		27		ns
Serum PTH (pmol/L)	51	3.5 (2.2–5.6)	24	4.4 (2.0–8.9)	ns^†
Serum alkaline phosphatase (iu/L)	131	62 (48–80)	26	79 (65–96)	0.01^†
UCa/Cr (mmol/mmol)	75	0.32 (0.19–0.43)	26	0.19 (0.12–0.41)	ns^†
UNTx/Cr nmol BCE/mmol Cr	81	38.9 (26.9–50.1)	27	36.2 (23.3–46.3)	ns^†
TSH (mu/L)		Not available	24	1.86 (1.52–2.41)^Ø

Normal range for TSH is 0.5–4.5 mu/L.
Excluding 5 patients taking oral calcium supplements.
Serum PTH and ALP values are mean ± 1 standard deviation of the antilogged values (see Section 2).
^†Mann–Whitney test.
Values are mean ± SD or for the italicized data median and range.