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

Table 4 The associations of serum vitamins levels with bone mineral density at different sites stratified by ethnicity^a

Sites	Serum vitamins	Mexican-American (N = 1484)			Not Hispanic (N = 4539)
Sites	Serum vitamins	β	95% CI	P	β	95% CI	P
Femur neck
	Serum folate	0.00003	−0.00067-0.00073	0.925	0.00027	0.00002–0.00057	0.047
	Serum vitamin A	− 0.00740	− 0.01947-0.00467	0.229	0.01132	0.00478–0.01787	0.001
	Serum vitamin B12	0.00003	−0.00001-0.00007	0.157	−0.00001	−0.00003-0.00002	0.501
	Serum vitamin C	0.00015	−0.00013-0.00044	0.290	0.00027	0.00012–0.00042	0.001
	Serum vitamin E	0.00020	−0.00039-0.00080	0.500	0.00012	−0.00022-0.00045	0.504
Total region
	Serum folate	−0.00032	−0.00104-0.00039	0.379	0.00032	0.00002–0.00063	0.039
	Serum vitamin A	−0.00134	− 0.01370-0.01101	0.831	0.01115	0.00430–0.01799	0.001
	Serum vitamin B12	0.00004	−0.00001-0.00008	0.086	−0.00001	−0.00003-0.00003	0.960
	Serum vitamin C	0.00001	−0.00025-0.00034	0.766	0.00029	0.00013–0.00045	< 0.001
	Serum vitamin E	0.00022	−0.00039-0.00083	0.474	0.00032	−0.00003-0.00067	0.077

^aIn all sites, age, sex, body mass index, years of school completed, race, 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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