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Treatment assignment
|
Follow-up status
|
|---|
| |
Calcium
|
Placebo
|
Includeda
|
Not included
|
|---|
| |
(N = 334)
|
(N = 336)
|
(N = 563)
|
(N = 107)
|
|---|
|
Variable
|
Mean (SD)
|
Mean (SD)
|
Mean (SD)
|
Mean (SD)
|
|---|
|
Age (years)
|
26.9 (5.6)
|
25.9 (5.3)b
|
26.5 (5.5)
|
26.2 (5.3)
|
|
Education (years)
|
10.8 (2.9)
|
11.0 (3.2)
|
10.9 (3.1)
|
10.6 (2.9)
|
|
Number of pregnancies
|
2.0 (1.0)
|
2.1 (1.1)
|
2.1 (1.0)
|
2.0 (0.9)
|
|
Number of children
|
0.8 (0.8)
|
0.8 (0.9)
|
0.8 (0.9)
|
0.7 (0.7)
|
|
Number of months previous breastfeeding (cumulative lifetime)
|
5.6 (8.9)
|
6.8 (9.0)
|
6.4 (9.2)
|
5.1 (7.2)
|
|
BMI (kg/m2)
|
25.9 (4.1)
|
25.8 (3.7)
|
25.9 (3.9)
|
25.9 (3.9)
|
|
Energy intake (kcal/day)
|
1888 (592)
|
1862 (637)
|
1860 (613)
|
1951 (619)
|
|
Calcium intake (mg/day)
|
1108 (492)
|
1083 (532)
|
1096 (515)
|
1091 (497)
|
|
Hematocrit (%)
|
39.1 (3.3)
|
39.1 (3.0)
|
39.1 (3.2)
|
39.1 (2.7)
|
|
NTx (nM BCE/mM creatinine)c
|
62.3 (1.7)
|
62.9 (1.7)
|
62.9 (1.7)
|
52.2 (1.7)
|
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aDefined as having at least one visit completed after baseline and included in final model.
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bp < 0.05 Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann–Whitney U) two sample test of equality of distributions.
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cGeometric mean and GSD; n = 291 treated, n = 285 with placebo.
