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

Table 6 The associations of serum vitamins levels with bone mineral density at different sites stratified by sex^a

Sites	Serum vitamins	Males (N = 2686)			Females (N = 3337)
Sites	Serum vitamins	β	95% CI	P	β	95% CI	P
Femur neck
	Serum folate	0.00040	0.00010–0.00089	0.014	0.00016	−0.00015- 0.00047	0.299
	Serum vitamin A	0.01365	0.00431–0.02298	0.004	0.00298	−0.00421-0.01018	0.417
	Serum vitamin B12	−0.00001	−0.00005-0.00002	0.432	0.00001	−0.00001-0.00004	0.304
	Serum vitamin C	0.00022	0.00001–0.00044	0.046	0.00029	0.00012–0.00045	0.001
	Serum vitamin E	−0.00007	−0.00054-0.00040	0.773	0.00030	−0.00008-0.00068	0.118
Total region
	Serum folate	0.00042	0.00018–0.00092	0.010	0.00015	−0.00018-0.00048	0.365
	Serum vitamin A	0.01709	0.00761–0.02657	< 0.001	0.00316	−0.00442-0.01073	0.414
	Serum vitamin B12	0.00001	−0.00003-0.00004	0.728	0.00002	−0.00001-0.00005	0.191
	Serum vitamin C	0.00028	0.00005–0.00050	0.016	0.00028	0.00010–0.00045	0.002
	Serum vitamin E	0.00029	−0.00019-0.00077	0.232	0.00037	−0.00002-0.00077	0.065

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