Lower prevalence of hip fractures in foreign-born individuals than in Swedish-born individuals during the period 1987-1999

Table 1 Characteristics of male subjects regarding country of birth, mean age, and incidence of hip fracture¹

Country of birth	Total number	Mean age in 1970	Hip fracture (n)	Hip fracture /10,000 person years	OR	p-value	Mean no. of years in Sweden in 1970
Sweden	150,107	37.0	3,555	20.4
Denmark	12,753	39.9	305	21.9	1.01	0.868	11.8
Finland	52,317	32.7	627	10.5	0.58	< 0.001	12.9
Iceland/Norway	10,153	41.6	366	32.1	1.49	< 0.001	21.2
Yugoslavia	10,966	31.2	62	4.6	0.25	< 0.001	4.8
Poland	3,354	41.2	60	16.5	0.76	0.029	15.7
Germany	11,870	37.6	207	15.4	0.75	< 0.001	24.1
Other European country	28,354	38.3	484	15.2	0.75	< 0.001	20.9
Non-European country	10,641	39.4	235	20.4	0.94	0.294	31.5
Stateless/Unknown	121	41.0	10	82.6	3.71	< 0.001	31.0

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