Table 1 Characteristics of study participants.

From: Association of short sleep duration and trabecular bone score

Characteristic

Sleep duration at night

5 h N = 677

6 h N = 1008

7 h N = 1190

8 h N = 1240

9 h N = 365

Total N = 4480

P-value

Continuous variables*

Age (years)**

47.90(17.91)

48.12(17.95)

46.97(17.75)

49.44(20.00)

50.81(22.46)

48.36(18.91)

0.002

BMI (kg m−2)***

30.19(7.59)

29.14(6.76)

28.23(5.79)

28.34(6.40)

28.58(8.66)

28.79(6.76)

 < 0.001

CRP (mg/dL)**

0.51(0.70)

0.48(0.84)

0.42(0.86)

0.51(0.88)

0.59(0.89)

0.49(0.84)

0.008

Fasting Glucose (mg/dL)

106.11(34.85)

105.07(35.09)

101.67(22.52)

105.96(36.63)

107.44(40.93)

104.84(33.40)

0.124

Total spine BMD

1.0452(0.15425)

1.0460(0.15749)

1.0395(0.14507)

1.0413(0.15007)

1.0199(0.16346)

1.0409(0.15215)

0.222

TBS**

1.3530(0.15188)

1.3680(0.14736)

1.3851(0.13486)

1.3740(0.13972)

1.3609(0.14900)

1.3716(0.14311)

0.001

Categorical variablesa

Male**

344(50.8)

497(49.3)

581(48.8)

586(47.3)

142(38.9)

2150(48.0)

0.004

Race-ethnicity***

      

 < 0.001

Mexican American

124(18.3)

196(19.4)

238(20.0)

282(22.7)

69(18.9)

909(20.3)

 

Other Hispanic

21(3.1)

32(3.2)

46(3.9)

33(2.7)

6(1.6)

138(3.1)

 

Non-Hispanic White

258(38.1)

448(44.4)

666(56.0)

682(55.0)

202(55.3)

2256(50.4)

 

Non-Hispanic Black

246(36.3)

288(28.6)

193(16.2)

202(16.3)

72(19.7)

1001(22.3)

 

Snorting/ stop breathing ***

160(26.6)

224(24.3)

189(17.1)

194(17.2)

56(17.0)

823(20.2)

 < 0.001

Coronary heart disease

33(4.9)

43(4.3)

28(2.4)

58(4.7)

13(3.6)

175(3.9)

0.056

Cancer/Malignancy**

47(6.9)

68(6.7)

99(8.3)

111(9.0)

46(12.6)

371(8.3)

0.001

Smoking

341(50.4)

488(48.4)

542(45.5)

579(46.7)

171(46.8)

2121(47.3)

0.464

  1. Continuous variables are presented as mean (standard deviation). Categorical variables are presented as number (percentage).
  2. BMD bone mineral density, BMI body mass index, CRP C-reactive protein, TBS Trabecular bone score.
  3. Asterisks indicate statistical significance: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.