Research Article

Bone Turnover in Relation to Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone in Hypothyroid Patients on Thyroid Hormone Substitution Therapy

Table 2

Spearman’s rho values for correlations of TSH, FT4, and FT3 on four bone markers: procollagen type 1 N-terminal propeptide (PINP); C-terminal cross-linking telopeptide of type 1 collagen (CTX); bone specific alkaline phosphatase (BSAP), and osteocalcin (OC).

BTMTSHFT4FT3

PINP−0.47 0.27 0.47
CTX−0.38 0.22 0.32
BSAP−0.20 0.23 0.41
OC−0.24 0.19 0.36