Research Article
Bone Mineral Density in Gravida: Effect of Pregnancies and Breast-Feeding in Women of Differing Ages and Parity
Table 6
Results in 12 outliers based on
-scores and/or
-scores <−2.0 at the LS.
| Mean age (years) | 26.6 (range: 22–39 with only two >30) | Mean height (cms) | 157.4 (range: 145–165) | Mean prepregnancy weight (kgs) | 55.4 (range: 41–90) | Mean prepregnancy BMI | 22.4 (range: 17–39) | Mean current weight | 60.8 (range: 44–85) | Mean current BMI | 24.6 (range: 18–37) | Mean weight gain | 5.3 (range: [−5]–12) | Mean gravidity | 3.4 (range: 1–8) | Mean parity | 3.3 (range: 1–8) | Mean number months lactation | 24.9 (range: 0–98; three: primiparous; plus one multiparous never breast fed) | Mean number months pregnancy + lactation | 52.5 (range: 8.5–166; three: primiparous) | Mean FN-BMD | 0.700 (range: 0.605–0.736) | Mean FN -scores | [−1.5] (range: [−1.0]–[−2.2]) | Mean FN -scores | [−1.4] (range: [−1.0]–[−2.1]) | Mean LS-BMD | 0.800 (range: 0.692–0.831) | Mean LS -scores | [−2.3] (range: [−2.0]–[−3.2]) | Mean LS -scores | [−2.2] (range: [−1.8]–[−3.2]) |
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BMI: body mass index; FN: femoral neck; BMD: bone mineral density; LS: lumbar spine.
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