Erratum to: Osteoporos Int

DOI 10.1007/s00198-013-2602-4

An error in standardization of effect sizes for the marital history variable was discovered. The corrected effect sizes are slightly different from those given in the first sentence of the Results paragraph of the Abstract and in the third paragraph of the Results section in the main text, and the corrected passages are provided here.

Abstract

Results Compared to stably married men, men who were currently divorced, widowed, or separated, men who were currently married but previously divorced, widowed, or separated, and never married men had 0.34 (95 % CI: 0.01, 0.67), 0.38 (95 % CI: 0.09, 0.68), and 0.53 (95 % CI: 0.22, 0.84) standard deviations lower lumbar spine BMD, respectively.

Results (third paragraph)

Those who had never married had 0.28 SD lower BMD at the lumbar spine (95 % CI: −0.51 to −0.04), and those who are currently divorced, widowed, separated had 0.25 SD lower lumbar spine BMD (95 % CI: −0.45, −0.05) compared with participants who were currently married and never divorced, widowed, or separated (Table 2: Model 2). There was marginal evidence that the association between never married and lower BMD differed by gender (p = 0.08); thus, we ran stratified models. The gender-stratified models demonstrated that among men, those who were never married, and those currently married/previously divorced, widowed, separated had lower lumbar spine BMD (0.53 SD lower BMD, 95 % CI: −0.84 to −0.22, and 0.38 SD lower BMD, 95 % CI: −0.68 to −0.09, respectively), but this was not the case among women (Table 2: Model 2).

Table 2 Table 2 Effect size and 95 % confidence interval for adjusted associations of various aspects of marital status and lumbar spine BMD. Effect sizes expressed in multiples of the BMD standard deviation (SD)
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