<![CDATA[Objective: To determine the correlation between C‐telopeptide with
osteoporosis risk by using Osteoporosis Self Assessment Tools for
Asian (OSTA) in postmenopausal women.
Method: An analytic cross‐sectional study of 31 postmenopausal
women in Prof. Dr. RD Kandou Hospital, Manado. Samples were collected
through consecutive sampling. Data was analyzed using Pearson
test with significance level of p>0.05.
Result: Our sample consisted of 31 postmenopausal women. Mean
OSTA score is ‐1.02K2.54. Sixteen women (51.61%) were deemed to
have low risk, 8 women (25.81%) deemed to have moderate risk
and 7 women (22.58%) deemed high risk based on the OSTA score.
The mean C‐telopeptide plasma level of our sample is 0.52K0.25
????g/l. We found plasma C‐telopeptide level and OSTA score were normally
distributed. Correlation analysis using Pearson test identified
a significant negative correlation between plasma C‐telopeptide level
and OSTA score (r=‐0.768; p=0.001).
Conclusion: There is a significant negative correlation between
plasma C‐telopeptide level with risk of osteoporosis based on OSTA
score in postmenopausal women.
Keywords: OSTA score, plasma C‐telopeptide, postmenopausal women]]>
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