Vitamin D status and viral response to therapy in hepatitis C infected children

Table 3 Mean ± SD values of bone density parameters in the studied groups with hepatitis C virus infection

	A (n = 31)	B (n = 29)	Total (n = 60)	Z- score	P value
Head	1.226 ± 0.394	1.12 ± 0.383	1.173 ± 0.389	-0.16 ± 0.42	0.297
Arm	1.063 ± 1.223	0.89 ± 0.277	0.976 ± 0.883	-0.916 ± 1.2	0.453
Leg	0.912 ± 0.225	0.969 ± 0.38	0.94 ± 0.311	-1.13 ± 1.34	0.482
Rib	0.688 ± 0.248	0.869 ± 0.411	0.778 ± 0.349	-1.31 ± 0.78	0.0431
Pelvis	0.839 ± 0.187	0.92 ± 0.238	0.879 ± 0.216	-2.8 ± 1.53	0.051
L Spine	0.77 ± 0.207	0.901 ± 0.294	0.835 ± 0.261	-2.43 ± 1.7	0.0511
Total	0.834 ± 0.281	0.913 ± 0.381	0.874 ± 0.334	-1.98 ± 0.75	0.0361

¹Significance between total BMD of HCV patients vs control. BMD: Bone mineral density (g/cm²). HCV: Hepatitis C virus.