The association of liver fat content and serum alanine aminotransferase with bone mineral density in middle-aged and elderly Chinese men and postmenopausal women

Table 2 Association of bone mineral density with liver fat content and metabolic parameters

	Spine BMD		Hip BMD		Whole body BMD
	r	P	r	P	r	P
Men
Cigerette smoking	−0.186	<0.001	−0.095	0.009	−0.158	<0.001
Alcohol drinking	−0.004	0.914	−0.020	0.584	−0.043	0.241
Liver fat content	−0.116	<0.001	−0.095	0.014	−0.134	<0.001
Body fat percentage	0.019	0.600	−0.082	0.025	−0.171	<0.001
Trunk to appendicular fat ratio	0.058	0.119	0.005	0.884	−0.078	0.034
SBP	−0.178	<0.001	0.057	0.125	0.063	0.086
FBG	0.070	0.058	0.041	0.264	−0.008	0.817
Triglyceride	−0.019	0.616	−0.030	0.418	−0.112	0.002
Cholesterol	−0.025	0.504	−0.126	0.001	−0.098	0.007
HDL-c	0.037	0.322	−0.026	0.476	0.048	0.196
Uric acid	0.022	0.543	0.021	0.559	−0.007	0.842
Anti-osteoporotic drug	0.001	0.999	−0.015	0.679	−0.018	0.616
Postmenopausal women
Cigerette smoking	−0.064	0.057	−0.010	0.771	0.001	0.992
Alcohol drinking	−0.025	0.446	0.033	0.326	−0.013	0.700
Liver fat content	−0.093	0.008	−0.034	0.331	−0.107	0.002
Body fat percentage	−0.127	<0.001	−0.119	<0.001	−0.227	<0.001
Trunk to appendicular fat ratio	−0.069	0.027	−0.045	0.152	−0.112	<0.001
SBP	−0.099	0.003	−0.108	0.001	−0.163	<0.001
FBG	−0.067	0.046	−0.025	0.464	−0.107	0.001
Triglyceride	0.000	0.999	0.001	0.994	−0.034	0.307
Cholesterol	−0.013	0.688	0.001	0.992	−0.010	0.764
HDL-c	−0.042	0.206	−0.009	0.791	−0.004	0.911
Uric acid	0.136	<0.001	0.080	0.045	0.105	0.002
Anti-osteoporotic drug	0.029	0.386	0.007	0.895	0.023	0.494

Age and body weight were adjusted
SBP systolic blood pressure, FBG fasting blood glucose, HDL-c high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol

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