Clinical details of patients with Z scores less than −2 on the index scan at either the neck of femur or lumbar spine (n=18)
| Liver function tests (ratio of normal) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient No | Age at 1stscan | Sex | Dead | Transplant | Steroid | UDCA | Bisphos | Ca suppl | Biopsy | Bilirubin | Alk phos | Transminase |
| 1 | 60 | F | Y | Y | Y | B | <1 | 2.1 | <1 | |||
| 2 | 61 | F | Y | Y | Y | A | <1 | 1.7 | 4.6 | |||
| 3 | 58 | F | Y | Y | Y | <1 | 4 | <1 | ||||
| 4 | 59 | F | Y | <1 | <1 | <1 | ||||||
| 5 | 73 | F | Y | Y | Y | B | 1.3 | 3.2 | 1.4 | |||
| 6 | 48 | F | Y | <1 | 1.3 | 1.9 | ||||||
| 7 | 64 | M | Y | Y | <1 | 5.2 | 5.1 | |||||
| 8 | 67 | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | A | <1 | <1 | <1 | ||
| 9 | 53 | F | Y | A | <1 | 1.9 | 2 | |||||
| 10 | 70 | F | Y | A | <1 | 5.9 | 1.6 | |||||
| 11 | 62 | M | A | <1 | 3.3 | <1 | ||||||
| 12 | 69 | F | Y | <1 | 11.5 | 3.8 | ||||||
| 13 | 54 | F | Y | <1 | <1 | <1 | ||||||
| 14 | 64 | F | Y | <1 | 7.5 | 5.8 | ||||||
| 15 | 58 | M | Y | A | <1 | 7.6 | 4.5 | |||||
| 16 | 58 | F | Y | Y | A | 1.7 | 6.7 | 2.2 | ||||
| 17 | 65 | F | Y | Y | <1 | 1.2 | <1 | |||||
| 18 | 67 | F | Y | Y | 2.6 | 2.9 | 4.4 | |||||
Bispho, bisphosphonate; Alk phos, alkaline phosphatase; Y, yes; N, no; dead, died during follow up; Ca suppl, calcium supplements; B, early histological disease; A, advanced histological disease.