Disease Markers

Research Article

Serum Sclerostin and Its Association with Bone Turnover Marker in Metabolic Bone Diseases

Table 3

Basic characters of XLH and the control group.


	Control()	XLH()

Age (year)			—
Sex (male/female)	17/34	17/34	—
BMI (kg/m²)			0.114
β-CTX (ng/L)	320.00 (210.00, 485.00)	1616.00 (692.80, 2518.00)	< 0.001
PTH (pg/mL)	35.20 (29.10, 43.70)	67.82 (56.72, 86.28)	< 0.001
25OHD (ng/mL)			0.009
Sclerostin (pmol/L)	31.13 (20.37, 45.84)	163.40 (125.10, 238.20)	< 0.001

BMI: body mass index; β-CTX: β-CrossLaps of type 1 collagen containing cross-linked C-telopeptide; PTH: parathyroid hormone; 25OHD: 25-hydroxyvitamin D; XLH: X-linked hypophosphatemia. Normally distributed data are presented as the (SD), nonnormally distributed data are presented as the median (interquartile range).