Disease Markers

Research Article

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

Table 4

Basic characters of PDB and the control group.


	Control()	PDB()

Age (year)			—
Sex (male/female)	11/6	11/6	—
BMI (kg/m²)			0.064
β-CTX (ng/L)	235.00 (182.50, 380.00)	1195 (643.73, 2733.25)	< 0.001
PTH (pg/mL)	—	40.43 (34.70, 59.81)	—
25OHD (ng/mL)			0.308
Sclerostin (pmol/L)	119.00 (98.89, 194.80)	291.60 (153.42, 357.35)	< 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; PDB: Paget’s disease of bone. Normally distributed data are presented as the (SD), nonnormally distributed data are presented as the median (interquartile range).