High prevalence of osteoporosis in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma following gastrectomy

Table 2 BMD of 133 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma patients according to sex (mean ± SD)

	Male			Female
	BMD	T score	Z score	BMD	T score	Z score
L1-4	0.979 ± 0.203	-1.65 ± 1.63	-0.55 ± 1.55	0.835 ± 0.243	-2.31 ± 1.94	-0.72 ± 1.49
Femur - neck	0.837 ± 0.145	-0.89 ± 1.13	0.44 ± 0.97	0.765 ± 0.170	-1.11 ± 1.41	0.74 ± 1.14
Ward’s	0.658 ± 0.151	-1.72 ± 1.17	0.04 ± 1.01	0.588 ± 0.181	-2.26 ± 1.40	0.13 ± 1.13
Trochanter	0.768 ± 0.154	-0.12 ± 1.40	0.65 ± 1.28	0.622 ± 0.139	-1.20 ± 1.24	-0.07 ± 0.96
Total hip	0.911 ± 0.181	-0.25 ± 1.45	0.79 ± 1.32	0.803 ± 0.174	-1.12 ± 1.44	0.37 ± 1.13

T scores (compared with young adults); Z scores (compared with age-matched controls).