Associations of serum vitamins levels with bone mineral density in the different race-ethnicities US adults

Table 3 The associations of serum vitamins levels with bone mineral density at different sites stratified by race^a

Sites	Serum vitamins	White (N = 4164)			Black(N = 1859)
Sites	Serum vitamins	β	95% CI	P	β	95% CI	P
Femur neck
	Serum folate	0.00007	−0.00022-0.00035	0.636	0.00086	0.00018–0.00154	0.013
	Serum vitamin A	0.00590	0.00075–0.01258	0.012	0.01020	−0.00094-0.02134	0.073
	Serum vitamin B12	0.00001	− 0.00002-0.00003	0.715	−0.00001	− 0.00005-0.00003	0.612
	Serum vitamin C	0.00019	0.00004–0.00034	0.011	0.00036	0.00006–0.00066	0.017
	Serum vitamin E	0.00022	−0.00009-0.00053	0.158	−0.00049	−0.00126-0.00029	0.218
Total region
	Serum folate	0.00006	−0.00024-0.00036	0.690	0.00082	0.00014–0.00151	0.018
	Serum vitamin A	0.00511	−0.00193-0.01215	0.155	0.01297	0.00171–0.02423	0.024
	Serum vitamin B12	0.00001	−0.00002 − 0.00004	0.474	0.00001	-0.00004-0.00004	0.954
	Serum vitamin C	0.00021	0.00006–0.00037	0.007	0.00029	−0.00001-0.00059	0.061
	Serum vitamin E	0.00030	−0.00003-0.00062	0.076	−0.00005	−0.00083-0.00073	0.903

^aIn all sites, age, sex, body mass index, years of school completed, ethnicity, living regions, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, history of hypertension, history of diabetes, history of fracture, and sample design weights were adjusted

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